"Back to the Future" originally didn't star Michael J Fox but Eric Stoltz. After a few weeks of shooting, the director and screenwriter felt it wasn't working and fired Stoltz. They reshot all the scenes at a cost of $3M, and a classic was born. The lesson for product managers
(good post, especially the observation that many big companies view agile as small waterfall exercises. Hell, SAFe has a quarterly Program Increment that is far more waterfall (with messy in person planning) than Agile, yet corporations that practice SAFe claim to be "Agile" and even "Lean Agile"
Great point about not being afraid to pivot!
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(good post, especially the observation that many big companies view agile as small waterfall exercises. Hell, SAFe has a quarterly Program Increment that is far more waterfall (with messy in person planning) than Agile, yet corporations that practice SAFe claim to be "Agile" and even "Lean Agile"