Choosing the Right Time to Start
That so many new exercise programs and diets begin on New Year’s Day is testament to the human desire to align change with outside factors, such as the calendar. Just as we may feel that exercise programs should begin on the first day of the year, we may think that a new software development process should be introduced on the first day of a new project. Choosing a new project (or restarting a failed one) for your pilot lets you make a fresh start. Teams who have chosen to start fresh begin by focusing on the product backlog. Such a team will usually wait to begin its first sprint until it has created a product backlog that contains all of the features that are known at the time. Trond Wingård, an agile project ...
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