The main difference between Some-planning-up-front and big-A Agile IMHO is that responsibility for failure of delivering on the plan can be shunted away from th

The main difference between Some-planning-up-front and big-A Agile IMHO is that responsibility for failure of delivering on the plan can be shunted away from the leadership to a slow-burn failure of delivering on quality after many iterations. A product will have been built, but it is too costly, low quality, expensive to maintain. Lack of qualified software design can be papered over for several years with the big A...