RE: Practice: Weekly Cycle

    > One of my principles is working with human nature, 
    > including natural time cycles. One week and one month are 
    > common cycles. That's why I'm suspicious of two-week 
    > iterations--fortnights aren't nearly as widely used as 
    > either weeks or months.

At the large companies Ive worked, two-weeks was actually far more common than 
one week for anything but the individual task-level of planning. So those folks 
were more accustomed to having a monthly or semi-monthly/bi-weekly team-wide 
milestone. (perhaps it had something to do with how often we got our paychecks 
;-)
 
    > I have a question for those using two week iterations. 
    > After the first week, how do you know if you are half 
    > done? Is this even an interesting question?

For us, it probably wouldn't have been an interesting question. We still had 
estimates and target-due-dates for individual tasks. So we would see what 
tasks/stories were done that were estimated to be done by then, and then decide 
how to adjust/correct if necessary. We would do that sort of thing in each 
daily meeting. But I suppose that particular conversation on the last workday 
of the week perhaps carried a bit more weightiness to it.
 
 


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