[backendanon]

> This seems to skip over the main issue I've had with waterfall - management picking dates before detailed analysis.

Yup. In Agile though, the opposite happens, we the devs are encouraged or coerced to agree to work tickets whose scope is not baked enough to start serious coding which should happen during planning or grooming...except raising a question you often get the "what part is not clear" condescending tone which discourages discourse and fleshing out of the ticket's scope.

[orwin]

Not a fan of agile (I'm mostly working on Sre and security), but this is a failure of management, not agile.