A recent report published by Forrester Research argues that most organisations apply agile ideas only to development, leaving business outside the loop and losing out on big benefits. Many organisations adopt a process that Dave West called Water-Scrum-Fall, with a huge business decision-making part up front, an iterative technical delivery part in the middle, and a long business approval process at the end. West's conclusion that “most firms do requirements and planning before forming a Scrum team” paints a bleak picture of agile adoption. Impact maps can help solve this problem as they make
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