I went to an all day planning session yesterday for the next set of sprints for a client, they're doing 3 sprints for the next release with each sprint being 2 weeks long. I was there to provide architecture advice on the implementing the functionality using their newly adopted MVC(P) pattern and layered architecture. I sat in on several sessions for one team and they where going great guns at producing a development backlog. By the end of the session they had a good break down of the technical tasks required for the sprints, this included estimations of the time required for the tasks and the total estimated time fitted well with the total time available per sprint. At the end of the day the team then presented there proposed sprints to the whole development team. When one of the other teams was presenting it became apparent they had fallen back into the safe & familiar waterfall approach. The glaring evidence for this was an ad-hoc Gantt chart stuck to the wall! It became ob...