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Despite a moment towards thinking of software as an experiment, running hypothesis based experiments and having a position of humility when developing software, many organisations, stakeholders, teams and project managers still fall into traditional predictive approaches and as a result, they want to know the traditional date of when something will be done or teams have to interact with dependenciesdelivered.
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Traditional vs Agile
In traditional project management approaches, the scope is fixed with a lot of planning up front and then resource management is used to try and deliver the scope within the time set.
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In this case, the Product Owner can communicate to stakeholders that it's estimated the team can deliver the Search Interface feature at the end of sprint 2.
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Be careful about emerging requirements - often teams will estimate tasks initially and then when more refinement or planning is done, more requirements emerge which may mean the feature actually takes longer to deliver than initial thoughts. In the example above, a date in sprint 3 would allow some “wiggle” room |
Some teams will fall into a nasty habit of trying to plan everything up front to try and predict the date successfully, however, this is really very difficult and also considered a waste.
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