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backlog sounds like "not today" bucket but in reality backlog is "never" bucket Agile is great in theory, expects perfectly functional rational organisations w
by jatins 4y ago
backlog sounds like "not today" bucket but in reality backlog is "never" bucket
Agile is great in theory, expects perfectly functional rational organisations without an internal political tug of war. Which us why agile almost never works well in practice in BigCos.
- marcosdumay 4y agoIn scrum "backlog" is "look at it once a month and decide what you will work on". In kanban, "backlog" is "the list of potential next actions". In none of them it's a "never" bucket, mostly because it's the only bucket you have. Anyway, both of those explicitly don't have the possibility of stopping whatever you are doing right now. The agile methodologies (always remember that Agile says you shouldn't put too much stake in methodologies) have plenty of flaws, but this isn't one of them.
- tootie 4y agoI find it's built exactly for office politics. Because the backlog can be shared with stakeholders everyone can see what work is in the queue and in what order. The only thing a team lead needs to stand firm on is capacity.