Category Archives: iteration

Timeboxes, Iterations, and Orthodoxy

  If you haven’t read Duane Nathaniel’s thoughtful comment on What Happens When You Can’t Finish What You Wanted in an Iteration?, do so now. Duane makes some great points. RUP has iterations; they’re not timeboxed–they’re deliverable-based. (Take a look … Continue reading

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Estimating What’s Remaining to Finish

  Pawel caught me being ambiguous. See his comment, “1. I’ve seen features/fixes which required 2 days to be developed and released.” Sorry, me too. But what I tried to say was this: A feature was estimated to be some … Continue reading

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What Happens When You Can’t Finish What You Wanted in an Iteration?

  I ran a little workshop today about transitioning to agile. I was talking about timeboxed iterations, and one of the participants asked this question. “So I don’t quite finish one of the features I want to finish in this … Continue reading

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