Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle

Steve Freeman wrote:

> Ron Jeffries wrote:
> > I, too, favor weekly iterations. However, I have recently had teems,
> > having tried one-week iterations, go to two weeks. I believe this 
> was due
> > to the fact that they were in a legacy situation and the medium was too
> > sticky to get much done in a week. If I were doing it, I'd push to 
> get back
> > to a week, but I'd support the stretching to two weeks given where they
> > currently found themselves.
>
> I've had this pattern. We had a legacy codebase and one-week iterations
> were just too tight. We compromised on having major/minor weeks: a two
> week iteration with some coordination on the off week. Had the project
> lasted we would have pushed up the rate.
>

Same.  Two week iterations are the norm for my teams. 

Michael



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