4 Releasable Is Less Than Released

In Scrum, the Development Team delivers at least one releasable Increment of functionality per Sprint. When Scrum was developed more than 20 years ago, this was a revolutionary innovation, as it was typical for software projects to take months or years to deliver releasable results. Since then, much has happened. Step by step, Development Teams have improved their own ways of working, and the software industry at large has changed, too. Continuous integration and test-first approaches to developing software, among other practices, have helped teams to deliver releasable results continuously in very small batches. Collectively, these practices and many more have come to be known as DevOps.

Despite widespread ...

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