Big picture A common cause for the disconnect between business and delivery is that teams iteratively deliver items that are too small to make a difference from a business perspective. Projects become endless streams of small items going through the pipeline, with no big picture or big benefits. Business sponsors simply don't care about small deliverables, and they wait for everything to be finished. Even worse, they often ask for scope and cost to be fixed at the beginning of a project, pretty much defeating the point of iterative delivery. By trading the big picture for the ability to change
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