Jason GormanIf you already know what's in your backlog for the next N iterations of your product, you're not doing iterative development. You're working through a plan.
Zappes@jasongorman I feel that you have been confronted with the SAFe framework. I honestly feel your pain and bewilderment. Be hugged and please know that you are not alone.
@zappes SAFe, Scrum, RUP, the list goes on and on.
@jasongorman Well, RUP did at least not even pretend to be agile. Its sole purpose, IMHO, was to do non-agile and treat developers as cattle that only has to write down what the brilliant architect drew in Rose...
@zappes TBF, RUP could be whatever you wanted it to be. It's just that everybody wanted it to be a heavyweight command-and-control process.
Chris Pitts@jasongorman @zappes Only in badly run Scrum
Which admittedly seems to be most implementation of it these days ☹️
craignicol@jasongorman but without a backlog how would we keep track of the low priority work that's never going to get done?
Andy Wootton@craignicol @jasongorman That's not the point of a Backlog. It's there to remind you why you said "No!" the previous 3 times they asked for this and ignored your reasons why it was a Really Bad Idea (in case anything has changed. I never experienced that happening but it could.)
@jasongorman @woo I've got a "to-don't" list for that. Put the item, and the reasons why, and until any of those reasons change, it stays there.
@craignicol @jasongorman Ahh, so you do have a backlog but call it something else :-).
Must, Should, Could and Won't, or 'To Not Do'. MoSCoW.
Must, Should, Could and Won't, or 'To Not Do'. MoSCoW.
@jasongorman @woo I have a backlog the same way this is my junk mail filling cabinet 🗑️
Abram Kedge🏴🇨🇦@jasongorman We've tackled all the low hanging fruit, we're two weeks to launch and we have only four items left to implement. Each of which will take two months. 👌