Why is Agile Roadmapping so Misunderstood?

Despite claiming to be Agile, many organizations still get drawn into planning features in a Waterfall manner. Why is that? And what can we do about it?

Raj Nagappan
Level Up Coding
Published in
11 min readNov 19, 2021

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Does Agile planning seem unnaturally difficult? Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash

In principle, applying Agile software development should be simple:

  1. Build an increment.

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PhD, software engineer, author. Helping teams to craft better products that customers love. Connect at linkedin.com/in/rajnagappan