Dan Coman

… hybrids of Agile and long-term planning that will balance all the tradeoffs in the optimal way.

We ended up with an approach where we spend significant amount of time in the beginning to create a detailed plan for future work. The project blueprint is shared with the client in the form of a report. Senior Developer, UI/UX Designer, and very seasoned Project Manager all contribute to its contents. It’s thoroughly discussed and all decisions are meticulously documented. It guides the whole team, including the Product Owner during the stormy times that will come eventually. Of course, it’s not a bulletproof solution and entire product team is working hard on improving our method. There are also fascinating developments made by Tom & Kai Glib in their “Value First” approach. We are analyzing their findings and we won’t hesitate to share lessons learned here.

Computer science is the study of what computers [can] do; programming is the practice of making computers do things.