QCon 2007 - What I learnt about process - Part 2

Going through my notes I discovered this useful map of an agile life-cycle. I think it came from Rachel Davies's session on user stories.



As text it reads:

Bird's eye view of life cycle

Exploration

Explore

• business domain
• technology
• process
• scope

Keep as short as possible (< 2 weeks)

Release planning - create roadmap of releases

• May not happen until some initial iterations
• Flesh out plan as you progress
• Deliver high risk / high value items early
• Set concrete release dates but vary features

Iterations

Production - aim is to arrive here ASAP

Planning phases

Customer needs

Implementation considerations

Implementation tasks

Estimated task list

Customer reviews effort vs. necessity

UI Design is often done an iteration ahead,
to help users & team understand what is required