From the course: Blending Project Management Methods
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Agile team progress
From the course: Blending Project Management Methods
Agile team progress
- Agile teams track their progress very differently than Waterfall teams. Specifically, where Waterfall teams track their progress by milestones and time, Agile teams track their progress by completion of distinct features. Time is tracked, but only as a way of managing commitment, not to report on achievement. So when Agile teams are estimating their features and user stories, they use story points. Story points are simply a method for relatively sizing the effort needed to get the work item done. So a story, then, is a collection of tasks that will get the work item completed. And those steps, those tasks, include everything from design to build to test, and even user acceptance. So just like Waterfall teams, Agile teams also track at multiple levels. The primary method of tracking is at the sprint level. At the sprint level, Agile teams use a burndown chart to help them understand where they are relative to their overall commitment to work items for the sprint. That chart is…
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