Growing the Team: Establishing Short Iterations
Explore how to establish and manage short, timeboxed iterations within large agile teams. Understand the benefits of closed release cycles, the importance of sticking to deadlines, and strategies to overcome initial resistance. Learn how planned workshops and iterative cycles help detect issues early and keep project quality high.
Establishing short iterations
The results of the interviews served as a starting point for our scaled agile development process. It turned out that implementing really short development cycles was extremely important. We established release cycles lasting three weeks, each consisting of three one-week iterations. The goal of each release cycle was some additional useful functionality for the customer.
Installing short iterations, a closed release cycle, and an always-running system
One of the main arguments for installing short iterations was that we wanted to be able to correct mistakes as early as possible. Only ...