Michael Lant

Software Archictecture, Development, Agile Methods and the Intersection of People Process and Technology

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Agile, Kanban, Project Management, Scrum, Scrumban, Software Development, Teams

Has Agile Lost Its Way?

Does anyone actually think that a Burn Down Chart contributes one iota to creating Better Software Sooner? In my view, it is one of the most anti-agile things that we can do and it provides absolutely no value to anyone other than perhaps the executive suite so that they can have a nice, warm fuzzy feeling that we have a pretty chart that has a nice slope to it and it looks like the one from last sprint.