https://failfastmoveon.blogspot.com/2019/07/when-will-agile-project-be-done.html

Dear Michael, this post should serve as a reply to some of the points you made in the post found above.

I’ve got some questions…

Q: Is „it“ a project?

A: A project is a time-boxed endeavor to deliver a specific ‚product‘ with a limited resources. All these three conditions have to be fulfilled. Thus, if you don’t know what you want to deliver after the time box has ended, it’s not a project.

Remarks from the PRINCE2 Agile perspective

PRINCE2 is driven by themes, one of their themes is the business case. This business case will be initially developed in the ‚Starting up the project‘ process and will be finalized in the ‚Initiating the project‘.

The business case contains three scenarios (best case, average case, worst case), which are based upon a combination of expected outcome (defined by high level requirements, AKA epics), risks, quality expectations and a defined timeline.

PRINCE2 Agile thinks about what to flex and what to fix. Scope could be fix or flex. If we consider MoSCoW as a heuristic for evaluating importance/relevance of requirements, fix means „must have“ and sometimes „should have“, flex means „could have“.

Q: What is your definition of the project’s „Definition of ‚done’“?

A:  If you don’t have a ruler, you cannot measure distances. If you don’t have an idea of ‚done‘-ness of your project and its required product features, you can neither define the product your project shall deliver, nor can you judge if or when the product has been delivered successfully.