RE: Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle

Iterations do a few things :-

Focus you on releasing software often
Remind you to keep planning
Timebox a bunch of work so you can predict forward. 

What we have found is that *we* don't need an iteration as such.  We can
plan ALL the time.  We can Release ALL the time.  But we still need a
timebox that you can say, we can get X done in X time.    We got to this
point though by doing iterations weekly and doing the planning game.
Another Team I'm working with we are using a good ol weekly iteration.

Regards,

Keith


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hogan [mailto:bwhogan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 3:41 a.m.
> To: xpbookdiscussiongroup-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xpe2e] Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Is the fact that a story is "comfortably completed" a 
> side-effect of the ordering or priority in the iteration?
> 
> Iterations are in some ways just a reporting boundary, so the 
> last card in an iteration will often be incomplete, and if 
> you have a larger team, you will have multiple incomplete 
> stories. This is assuming that you have a constant pace, and 
> you don't speed up or slow down to accomodate the iteration 
> boundary. Both speeding up and slowing down seem like a bad 
> idea to me.
> 
> --
> Ben Hogan
> http://geekbeers.blogspot.com
> bwhogan AT gmail.com
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:49:47 -0800, Paul Hodgetts
> <phodgetts-5PSskdmeComukZHgTAicrQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  In your iteration retrospective, briefly visit each story, and
> >  ask if the story was "comfortably completed," where "comfort"
> >  means it wasn't rushed at the end of the iteration, ...
> 
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