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Deliver at a predictable pace

Deliver at a predictable pace

From the course: Agile Foundations

Deliver at a predictable pace

- One of the key ways that agile teams deliver is that they try to work at a predictable pace. You'll see this in principle eight of the manifesto. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The developers should maintain a constant pace. So the term predictable has been used as shorthand for sustainable and constant. But what does it mean to deliver predictably? We've seen in the penny game that you can deliver a small stream of work quickly through a system. The key is to make sure that you're breaking down the work into smaller batches. Typically, an agile team will write user stories to represent this batch of work. Then, at the beginning of each sprint, the team will commit to delivering a few of those batches. This is often called the sprint goal. Most agile teams will deliver the work product in a short iteration that's typically called a sprint. A sprint is usually two weeks long. The reason that most agile teams deliver in sprints is that it's a very well-structured way…

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