You know you’re not doing Iterative Development when…(5 Questions from Nokia)


Five questions asked by Nokia to determine whether or not their teams were ‘doing Iterative Development’.

These questions are discussed in more detail by Jeff Sutherland during the 2006 Google Tech Talk – Scrum Tuning: Lessons learned from Google.

So, you know you’re not doing Iterative Development when…

  1. Iterations are longer than six weeks
  2. Iterations are not timeboxed
  3. The team tries to finish the entire specification before programming
  4. An iteration does not deliver workable code
  5. An iteration does not include testing

So… do you do iterative development?

For an extended version of this questionnaire - See: How Agile Are you (The Survey)


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One Response to “You know you’re not doing Iterative Development when…(5 Questions from Nokia)”

  1. Jef says:
    September 3, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    That’s right, and you could add “iteration are not including team project review session…” or something like that. Great post also!
    Jef