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The Agile Samurai
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The Agile Samurai

by Jonathan Rasmusson
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
5h 38m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The Agile Iteration

By now you probably have a pretty good idea of what an agile iteration looks like. It’s that time-boxed (one- to two-week) period where we take our customers’ top stories and convert them into working software.

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It’s your engine for getting stuff done on an agile project. The goal is to produce something of value every time we turn the crank. That means whatever it takes to produce working, tested software needs to happen during an iteration.

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Iterations also enable us to adjust course when necessary. If our priorities change ...

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