Milestone | Glossary

 

Definition

Milestones are used as indicators to track progress toward a specific goal or event. There are three types of SAFe milestones:

  • Program Increment (PI):  They’re used to help objectively evaluate progress towards the technical/business hypothesis. Occur on PI cadence.
  • Fixed-date: Do not occur on cadence. Used for factors that rely on external events, third-party deliverables, and external constraints.
  • Learning milestones: They’re used to help validate business opportunities and hypothesis.

Further Reading

For more on Milestone, read here and here.

Agile Retrospective: Making Good Teams Great | Book Series

Overview:

This book focuses on how to fix the problems on a software development project and streamline it. An Agile retrospective happens at the end of an iteration in Agile software development (ASD) cycle. During the retrospective, the team says on what happened in the iteration; what went right; what went wrong and identifies actions for improvement going forward. The contents of the book take us through significant information like how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design specifically for your team and organization, how to run productively, and how to scale these techniques up throughout the project not just at the end.

Author:

Esther Derb

Diana Larsen

Published In:

2012