AGILE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE

A typical Agile project life cycle is depicted in Figure 3.10.

1. Product vision
   • Product owner leads the effort to formulate the vision for the project with the help of all stakeholders

   

   Figure 3.9 Project life cycle and project management for Agile model (iterative and incremental model)

   

   Figure 3.10 Agile project life cycle

2. Product backlog
   • Product owner gathers high level requirements which includes list of functional and non-functional requirements
   • Product owner orders/prioritizes the product backlog based on predefined criteria
   • Product owner keeps the product backlog always up-to-date
3. Project kick-off
   • Product owner presents the project vision and initial product backlog with all the stakeholders
   • The team tries to estimate the product backlog using story points
   • Team fixes the duration for sprints/iterative cycle (2–4 weeks)
   • Team calculates initial velocity which is the number of story points that can be executed for each sprint [The detailed explanation of velocity can be found in Chapter 6]
   • Team groups iterative cycles(Sprints) into releases