Is Agile Incremental or Iterative ?

The product increment is the thing you produce at the Agile = incremental + iterative
end of an iteration, but there is more to it than that…

Jeff Patton used the infamous Mona Lisa

to illustrate the conce ptual difference :

Incrementing calls for a fully formed idea right from the start.
It’s not that different from waterfall then.

decisions are Karl Scotland introduced the conce pt of fidelity to capture

made early on w hat happens w hen work is done iteratively.
making things
hard to change Profile
High fidelity
solution
Iterating allows to move from vague idea to realisation, making
course correction as you go. Low fidelity Release 3

solution
Release 2

Changes are much Release 1

Easier & cheaper

Fidelity
!= quality

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