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This is the issue of agile. It is a blanket prescription for every scenario which of course … fails.

If you are talking about customer expectations, yes, you can manage customer expectations. As long as you are honest and upfront, customers tend to be forgiving.

On the other hand, if you are talking about a core API or building block that downstream APIs will depend on, then no. You can't deliver a API that writes to the database/storage layer that only works 90% of the time.



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