Manage Your Project Portfolio

Stabilize the Timebox

When you use an agile life cycle, you define the timebox duration at the beginning of a project. Use the same starting day and duration timebox for each team so you can decide the following at the end of each timebox (or at the end of every x timeboxes): how much value is left in continuing this project (or work or collection of features)?

You can use timeboxes in any life cycle. Timeboxes are ideally a week or two but can be as long as four weeks—any longer, and people lose the focus the timebox provides. You’ll find that shorter timeboxes require little planning, certainly less than a couple of hours. You will use a sequence of timeboxes to help people build a rhythm. For more information on using timeboxes in any life ...