Comments on: How We Do Things – Planning Part 2

By: www.lostechies.com

www.lostechies.com — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:26:03 +0000

How we do things planning part 2.. Awesome

By: Scott C Reynolds

Scott C Reynolds — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:05:11 +0000

@alberto sure, it’s a matter of perspective. for us it’s about reducing noise and extra movement. Things we know don’t even need consideration for 6 months don’t even enter our minds when we look at the backlog.

By: alberto

alberto — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:32:49 +0000

Well, when I said planned I was referring to things the client “wanted to have”, just as you called it the “planning space-time continuum”. They don’t have to be planned in detail.

And yes, the backlog has to be prioritized, but IMHO it’s no different from your different segments: high priorities first, low priorities last, and a continuum in the middle.

By: mob

mob — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:04:23 +0000

Nice series, thanks for sharing all of this.

BTW, I keep thinking that a midi of Montell Jordan’s “This is how we do it” will start playing when I open these posts.

By: Scott C Reynolds

Scott C Reynolds — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:32:25 +0000

@alberto

the roadmap and lie features are not “planned”. They just “exist”

What we found was that maintaining a single backlog for everything became noisy and involved a lot of wasted motion. Things far into the future detract from the signal of managing work coming up.

Additionally, and I could be wrong, but my understanding of the scrum backlog is that it is a prioritized backlog. Things far into the future here do not have priorities attached, further lessening the usefulness of keeping them in the same grouping as the rolling wave.

but again, this is just what I do.

By: alberto

alberto — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:13:43 +0000

In Scrum, a product backlog can very well fit all your planned features, not only your rolling wave. Nothing in it says all stories in the product backlog have to be fine grained, so you can (and should) also add your roadmap and “lie” features in it.

By: Mihai Lazar

Mihai Lazar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:47:53 +0000

This is nice. Thanks for sharing. You’ve given me something to think about, maybe the work process will stick with me, maybe not but it is something I found useful.