
WBS Out, Roadmap In
If you are still using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), then you still have the waterfall mindset: task driven. Lean Agile mindset, however, is Value driven. Things of value are planned and delivered in Stories, not in tasks. Stories are chunked together in a meaningful Feature of value. Features are spread out into a quarterly (chunk of three months spread over a year length) roadmap. Stories spread out into two-week sprints. In Lean Agile, WBS is out... Roadmap is in! Product Managers...if someone is asking you to deliver a project plan in WBS format ... and you are in the…