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Product increment

Product increment

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Product increment

- As a measure of progress, Agile teams produce working software frequently. In the Scrum framework, that means the team produces a potentially releasable, working product increment at the end of every sprint. You might be wondering why this working software is called a product increment. Well, it's simply meant to reflect the fact that the software is being produced iteratively and incrementally. That means that the work in a sprint is focused narrowly on a small subset of required functionality to get it to done. The narrow definition of the product increment is the total functionality of all the PBIs delivered and accepted in a sprint. You can also consider this more broadly and think of an increment as the completion of the PBIs in this sprint plus all the previous sprints. This broader definition isn't always the case from the perspective that while your team is building the overall product incrementally, the PBIs selected may not immediately be merged together until later. A…

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