I'm matrixed to two scrum teams at work, and I'm in the unique (and unfun) position of being the only person who works on the way early stages of our product development. It's in an industry with very long development leads (so our industry is NOT Agile), so it's common for us to need a year or two to get something out the door. My specific job is on the very beginning of that work pipeline: I talk with external customers, do research, talk through potential software solutions at a very high level, present those solutions to the external customers in user group meetings, work to get them to agree to the solutions and then help our internal team take them from high level to what everybody else in the world thinks of as "normal" business requirements that you code from.

If you plotted our work pipeline on a calendar, I would be active on one particular item from days 1-150 and then everybody else on the team works from days 151-365. My work has dependencies in that I need to do taskA, then taskC, then task B, etc. And the rest of the team is dependent on me getting all my tasks done.

We're just starting into Agile proper, with coaching from an Agile consultant company, and so far we keep planning one sprint at a time. We've been planning only whats immediately under our noses, and I keep telling them that we need to plan out at least six months and nail down those dependencies. So far it doesn't seem like they're listening. Do I just not belong on an Agile team because my work is so far in advance of everybody else?