Make frequent small releases   The development team needs to release iterative versions of the system to the customers often. The release planning meeting is used to discover small units of functionality that make good business sense and can be released into the customer's environment early in the project. This is critical to getting valuable feedback in time to have an impact on the system's development. The longer you wait to introduce an important feature to the system's users the less time you will have to fix it. ExtremeProgramming.org home | XP Rules | Project Velocity | Email the webmaster Copyright 1997, 1999 J. Donovan Wells all rights reserved.