[joshstrange]

I've tried explaining this to people till I'm blue in the face. It's simply unreasonable to plan specific tickets out that far. We simply don't know what we don't know. And that assumes business priorities will not change and the project requirements will not change (two things that almost always happen). Additionally, the mindset that we can embark on a multi-week/month project and stop/start it at a whim.

[scuff3d]

Ditto. In my experience it comes from our customer more then internally. They want all the risk reduction and stability provided by the old "waterfall" methods, but with the flexibility and speed of agile. But of course those two things don't mix. You need months if not years to plan a project the way they use to. We can't cram that amount of planning into a week.

Worse yet, once all those stories are made, they don't want us creating more. It takes a damn review board to get anything changed.