What Makes a Good Phase
A Phase is:
- •Small enough to complete in one tight iteration loop
- •Large enough to produce visible, testable progress
- •Reviewable against explicit acceptance criteria
- •Internally coherent, with one primary intent
A Phase is NOT:
- •An open-ended milestone
- •A roadmap
- •A grab-bag of unrelated tasks
- •A substitute for architecture decisions
If a requested Phase is too large, split it into multiple sequential Phases.