Veselina Vasileva, Senior Business Analyst at MentorMate, explains why and how to strive to deliver value at the end of each sprint in a software development process. There are three sides that you could look at.
On the one hand, if we assume that our sprint is two weeks long, then the end-users would experience a better and enriched product biweekly.
On the other hand, the business would manage to attract new customers and retain the current ones because they constantly offer new features. The third side is that the software development team stays focused and motivated because they see the actual results of their work.
There are four main points to achieve all this.
Firstly, you should define exactly what are the goals of this sprint. They should be achievable and shared with all team members.
Second, before the sprint starts, all dependencies and potential blockers that might prevent us from achieving our sprint goals should be determined and prevented.
Thirdly, you need to try and break down user stories into the smallest pieces possible. In this way, you can easily plan them within sprints and achieve them within the sprint in which they are planned. Then, you can develop them, test them, you could fix defects, and the final feature could be released after the sprint ends.
Fourthly, include the front-end and the back-end effort of a single functionality into one single story. In this way, in the end, there will be one work item for one functionality that the end-users will actually get.
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