{"id":86,"date":"2008-01-25T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quinert.com\/blog\/xml-rss2.php?itemid=65"},"modified":"2008-01-25T02:08:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T02:08:30","slug":"planning-to-make-use-of-learning-incremental-vs-iterative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/planning-to-make-use-of-learning-incremental-vs-iterative\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning to make use of learning &#8211; Incremental vs Iterative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During coffee with Agile-coach and all-round excellent guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/0\/959\/a87\">Shane<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogentconsulting.com.au\/about\/associates.html\">Clauson<\/a>, in sympathy with yet another of my what&#8217;s-wrong-with-agile rants, he pointed me to this blog post from Jeff Patton:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agileproductdesign.com\/blog\/dont_know_what_i_want.html\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I want, but I know how to get it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While my opinions diverge on some of what he says must be true, I think the important message that he (and others &#8211; Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.au\/search?hl=en&#038;q=site%3Acockburn.us+increment+iterate&#038;btnG=Search&#038;meta=\">Alistair Cockburn&#8217;s writing on this<\/a>) make is that it pays to plan to iterate.  That is, if you&#8217;re on an agile project and you don&#8217;t see anyone planning to rework things in response to feedback from using the product, you&#8217;re probably in for some disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>I think we frequently fail to give our customers an appropriate expectation when it comes to (agile) software development.  Having them read this isn&#8217;t a bad start, but you&#8217;ll want to figure out how to make this message your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During coffee with Agile-coach and all-round excellent guy Shane Clauson, in sympathy with yet another of my what&#8217;s-wrong-with-agile rants, he pointed me to this blog post from Jeff Patton: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I want, but I know how to get it While my opinions diverge on some of what he says must be true, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,18,25,29,30,31,32,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile","category-humanising-work","category-learning","category-requirements","category-software-development","category-software-testing","category-strategy","category-systems-thinking","category-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}