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Your Large Product Backlog Cripples Your Product

Your Large Product Backlog Cripples Your Product

Stop Embracing False Predictability, Embrace Empiricism Instead

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Willem-Jan Ageling
Jul 19, 2020
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Stop Embracing False Predictability, Embrace Empiricism Instead

Back in the old days, we used to write thick requirement documents. We would seek stakeholder approval and after that, design and coding kicked off. Months later, we would deliver our functionality. Unsurprisingly, the functionality often did not do what our users wanted. Their requirements …

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