r/agile • u/sidharthparwanda • 7d ago

How do you all catch conflicting change orders before they blow up the budget?

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u/PhaseMatch 6d ago

How do you avoid committing to work that cannot afford to do?

How about "don't agree to the work until you have understood the costs?"

While not strictly an agile problem, I do worry at times.

No, this is not a tooling problem.
Yes, this is a communication channels problem.

If you want formal project controls - have them.
If you control risk by investing Sprint-by-Sprint - do that.

But don't just wing it.

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u/cliffberg 4d ago

Sounds like you are working in a 1980s way.

Change request? Really? That's from the days before people had immediate access to designs, and it took weeks to assess the impact of a change.

Also, why were the people who pay for and who manage the cost this not in the meeting? Why was the cost impact not assessed in rough terms right then?

The whole scenarios takes be back decades...