From the course: Agile Foundations
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From the course: Agile Foundations
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- Agile teams focus on being predictable instead of creating detailed plans. Most organizations create detailed plans because they're trying to eliminate uncertainty, but agile teams can actually do a better job eliminating uncertainty by delivering predictably every few weeks. The Agile Manifesto points this out in Principles 3 and 8. It said that agile teams deliver working software frequently with a preference for the shorter timescale, and that developers should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely, so developers should be able to deliver frequently and indefinitely at a constant pace. Now, also remember that agile teams embrace change and are free to experiment, so your teams need to be able to experiment, change, while at the same time delivering frequently and indefinitely. If you stop for a minute, that sounds really hard to do. It almost sounds like painting a bus as it's driving down the road, while at the same time guaranteeing that you'll be on time at every…
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