How long is your iteration ?
Luca | March 10, 2007There are always a lot of discussions around the right length of an interation: in general the suggested length in the agile community is 4 weeks but recently a lot of teams are pushing really hard working with two weeks iteration.
WOOOW!! 2 weeks ??? 10 working days ??!?!?
In order to be able to work with such short iteration the team should be really smart in finding the right granularity of each story and keep the whole process incredibly lean; and this is something that is not free, takes quite a lot of time in order to master such skill.
In my experience 4 weeks is a good length: a longer iteration doesn’t give the necessary pressure on the delivery while shorter, as I was saying before, is really difficult to manage due to the complexity on defining the granularity of the tasks.
