Archive for March 10th, 2010

Managing scope of the sprint or iteration on an agile project

March 10, 2010

A common fear about agile is that it makes the job of managing scope difficult for your project.  This can be true, however, a golden rule of agile software development is that the scope of each iteration or sprint must be completely locked-down once it begins.  This means no new requirements, no swapping of requirements [...]

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What is a sprint or iteration in Agile or Scrum Software Development Projects?

March 10, 2010

Quite often we get asked by those new to agile project management what exactly an iteration or sprint is? The first thing is that a sprint and an iteration are essentially the same thing, a “sprint” is the term used by scrum, which is the most popular flavour of agile project management.  You’ll find that [...]

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