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Iterative Development Templates (1997)

The planning cards, cycle template, and retrospective format from our two-week iterative development process at Motorola — pre-Agile but entirely consistent with it.

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Iterative Development Templates (1997)

Process artefacts from our pre-Agile iterative development practice — two-week cycles, working software at each milestone, and explicit retrospectives.

Contents

  • cycle-template.md — agenda for the Monday planning meeting and Friday demo
  • task-card-format.md — the written format for a task card (title, owner, estimate, status)
  • retrospective-format.md — the four-question retrospective we ran at each cycle end
  • velocity-tracker.py — Python script to plot estimated vs actual hours per cycle