Iteration Goals

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Clarity adorns profound thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

Iteration Goals are a high-level summary of the business and technical goals that the Agile Team agrees to accomplish in an Iteration. They are vital to coordinating an Agile Release Train (ART) as a self-organizing, self-managing team of teams.

Iteration goals provide the following benefits:

  • They align the team members and the Product Owner to the mission.

  • They align the people to the Program Increment (PI) Objectives.

  • They provide context for understanding and addressing cross-team dependencies.

Whether the teams apply Scrum or Kanban, iteration goals give program stakeholders, ...

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