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L23. Iteration

Sun, 08/07/2011 - 8:08am — monica
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Wed, 11/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Resource(s): 
R1. Kessler & Sweitzer, "Outside-in Software Development" Ch 5

Every design effort inevitably has some work that needs to be done more than once. An iteration is the cycle by which a work product, artifact, or design is revised after evaluating feedback from a stakeholder. When “designing the iteration” we need to answer these questions: 

  • What is the project scope to which iterative methods will be applied?
  • What are the processes in each iteration?
  • What is the "cycle time" of the iteration?
  • What kind of feedback will be collected and what will be done with it? 

At a more macro level, we need to recognize that identifying stakeholders, determining their priority, and setting the priority of requirements elicited from them depends on the scope of the design project. These are inherently iterative tasks that require activities to maintain continuous stakeholder alignment.