Milena Mastrasso

I want to share with you my first experience at Agiles@Argentina, this is a little (but growing) group of people that enjoy sharing their knowledge about agile practices and how they apply this on daily work.  In my last post I talked about this meetings.

Last time we were talking about “What do you do in your first iteration?” and I would like to present some of the models proposed in that talk.

Some of the participants announced that they were using Scrum. However, I found an interesting difference, all of them talked about short Sprints, but the duration of this Sprint various between one and four weeks depending on the speaker.

Another speaker announced that their projects always start with a Retrospective meeting where the team discuss about “Which are the objectives for the project?” and “What could and could not be done taking into the experience of past projects?”

I also note that almost always the project initiate with a pre-sales process where they can take the “big picture” of the client requirements and then they formally start the project delivering in the first iteration a piece of final product which is made of:

1. Architecture document
2. Product Backlog and User Stories
3. Iteration Planning

Now I invite you to tell me and all the readers what do you do in your first iteration? what do you deliver? and How do you estimate what shall you do in each iteration?

If you want to share or learn something about agile estimation this is the topic of the next meeting (Tuesday July 14) at Microsoft Argentina offices, you can register here.