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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

According to the study, putting a specification in place before development begins can result in a 50 percent increase in success, and making sure the requirements are accurate to the real-world problem can lead to a 57 percent increase.

Is this not self-evident to most teams? Of course you will not reach your destination if you don't know where you're going.

[-] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

On all the agile projects I've worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development. Often claiming that we can't know the requirements up-front, because we're agile.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago

On all the agile projects I’ve worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development.

I don't think this is an Agile thing, at all. I mean, look at what Agile's main trait: multiple iterations with acceptance testing and product&design reviews. At each iteration there is planning. At each planning session you review/create tickets tracking goals and tasks. This makes it abundantly clear that Agile is based in your ability to plan for the long term but break/adapt progress into multiple short-term plans.

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