Technical debt hinders planning abilities by increasing the amount of unscheduled work as production defects distract the team from further progress. Agile software development requires teams to meet product commitments, which means they should focus on work for only that product. However, team members who appear to have spare capacity are often expected to take on other work, which makes it difficult for them to help complete the work to which their team had committed. A common mistake is to fill the product owner role with someone from the development team. This method splits a project into stages or “sprints,” allowing it to mature and evolve as you gain more information. To better understand Agile vs. Scrum, you can think of Scrum as a guideline for adopting the Agile approach...

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