October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
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Releasing new versions
As explained earlier, if we follow the Scrum methodology, we are supposed to deliver a new version every 2 weeks (the duration of a sprint in the majority of the cases), which has a dramatic impact on the resources consumed. Let's do the maths: quarter versus bi-weekly releases:
- In quarter releases, we release only four times a year in addition to emergency releases to fix problems found in production.
- In bi-weekly releases, we release once every 2 weeks in addition to emergency releases. This means 26 releases a year (52 weeks roughly) in addition to emergency releases.
For the sake of simplicity, let's ignore the emergency releases and focus on business as usual in our application. Let's assume this takes us 10 ...