Question

1. Three teams in the Agile Release Train are working on the same Feature. Team A is a component team, and Team B and Team C are feature teams. During PI planning, Team B and C committed to delivering their part of the Feature by the end of Iteration five and plan to integrate with each other along with Team A’s piece in the first week of the IP Iteration. Why is this an anti-pattern.

1. Because the teams managed their dependencies and planned their integration timing during PI planning
2. Because work should not be planned for the IP iteration
3. Because Product Manager accepted each team’s final plan at the end of PI Planning Day 2.
4. Because each feature team needs to integrate with the component team
5. Because each feature team need to integrate with the component team

Answer 1

Anti pattern in agile is something which goes beyond the plan and makes things worsen.

In this scenario, all the teams need to integrate with each other. For which there should be proper planning.

It is not like we plan something and look at it at the end of interation 5. This worsens the situation.

One has to conduct daily standups and at the end of every iteration, one has to give something deliverable.

Thus, if I talk about this situation, definitely planning is also wrong. Things can't be delayed till IP toleration. Proper testing has to be done before that only.

But main reason is because features need to be integrated with each other. Otherwise it can go live anytime.

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