Mostly, when moving from a waterfall-style delivery to an iterative/incremental delivery style, we struggle with a couple of things:
- Breaking the work down into small chunks: As a rule of thumb, a full-size Scrum team is aiming to deliver around five User Stories per Sprint. Most will struggle with delivering one in their first iteration.
- Having the appropriate mechanisms for delivery setup: If coming from a waterfall-style delivery background, most people will be used to work being carried out in separate phases. Unfortunately, we can apply this thinking to Scrum too, expecting development to be done in one sprint, integration and testing to be done in another, and deployment to be done in yet another. This isn't Agile thinking, we should avoid this approach at all cost.
In this chapter we've looked at ways to slice up our product into features that we can...
