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Tuesday, 21 June 2005

What's a suitable iteration length?

Posted by Simon Baker
Tags: iteration, sprint
Currently most agile development teams seem to settle naturally and comfortably with an iteration length between 1 and 4 weeks. Iterations longer than 4 weeks seem like a lifetime and it's easy to lose any development rhythm because the end of the iteration is too far away from the start.
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