Our topic today: Is it a plan if no one is assigned to the tasks in the plan?
That is more or less the question posed by Agilist Mike Cohn in a recent posting:
Paraphrasing: if your team has an Agile iteration (sprint) planning meeting, and you talk about all the stuff that needs to get done, and the tasks necessary thereto, but you have a culture of no one signs up for anything, have you a plan, and should this be the process?
I'm from the school of "unscheduled events don't happen", and schedules require resources, else they are more a hope than a schedule
So, I was a bit surprised that this question even comes up. Any sprint planning I'm in ends with confidence that things will get done because we know who is going to do them.
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