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| A release can be internal or external. An internal release is used only by the development organization, as part of a |
| milestone, or for a demonstration to users or customers. An external release (or delivery) is delivered to users. A |
| release is not necessarily a complete product, but can just be one step along the way, with its usefulness measured |
| only from an engineering perspective. Releases act as a forcing function that drives the development team to get |
| closure at regular intervals, avoiding the "90% done, 90% remaining" syndrome. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <a class="elementLinkWithType" href="./../../../base_concepts/guidances/concepts/iteration,3.379871268737602E-305.html" |
| guid="3.379871268737602E-305">Concept: Iteration</a>s and releases allow a better usage over time of the various |
| specialties in the team: designers, testers, writers, and so forth. Regular releases let you break down the integration |
| and test issues and spread them across the development cycle. These issues have often been the downfall of large |
| projects because all problems were discovered at once during the single massive integration step, which occurred very |
| late in the cycle, and where a single problem halts the whole team. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| With each Release,&nbsp;many <a class="elementLinkWithType" |
| href="./../../../base_concepts/guidances/concepts/work_product,4.804531471620803E-306.html" |
| guid="4.804531471620803E-306">Concept: Work Product</a>s&nbsp;are updated. It is said that this is a bit like "growing" |
| software. Instead of developing Work Products one after another, in a pipeline fashion, they are evolving across the |
| cycle, although at different rates. |
| </p> |
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