I think the pressure to deliver something within a fixed time frame sometimes results the delivery of functionality that's not entirely usable. The delivery doesn't address enough of the problem for it to be useful, until the second or third release. For example, if you're delivering every two weeks, you may deliver basic security, and CRUD functionality with the first release, but that may not be useful to the end-user without some graphing or analysis tools.
You may find yourself delivering a demo of the software, and framing it as a "prototype" to give the users some confidence that progress is being made towards their goal, and that progress is in-line with their expectations, and their vision of what the final solution will entail. Regards, Mark Fortner On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Graham Allan <[email protected]>wrote: > >"... get bits and pieces added for months before we've got anything > >useful." > > Have you got any insight on why the first few deliveries were not useful? > > I thought the point of phased delivery was that it did put something useful > out there early. Do you think that maybe the functionality chosen for the > first > delivery was incorrect? Or that maybe it was just too soon, so customers > only > saw foundations being laid? Or was the customer who mentioned it was not > the > focus of early releases, and wasn't aware other users did receive useful > functionality? Or do you find it's a general perception that if the > software > doesn't do everything it's not useful? > > Sorry, a ton of questions I know, but I'm soon going to be working in an > Agile > shop, and would be interested to hear more about user's perceptions of it. > > Kind regards, > Graham > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
