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| Personal contribution on an OpenUP project is organized in <strong>micro-increments</strong>. A micro-increment
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| represents the outcome of a few hours to a few days of work for one, or typically a few people collaborating to reach
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| the goals of the iteration. The concept of a micro-increment helps the individual team member to partition their work
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| into small units that each delivers something of measurable value to the team. Micro-increments provide an extremely
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| short feedback loop that drives adaptive decisions within each iteration.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| A micro-increment should be well defined, and you should be able to track daily progress of each micro-increment.
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| Micro-increments are specified and tracked by a work item. Change sets represent the physical outcome in terms of the
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| files are modified as a part of completing the work item. Let’s have a look at some sample micro-increments:
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| <ul>
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| <li>
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| <em>Identify Stakeholders.</em> Defining the Vision is a task that can drag on for weeks, so to ensure that you
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| make and track daily progress, divide the task into small and well-defined micro-increments. Describing and getting
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| buy-in on what Stakeholders to put into a Vision document is a meaningful result, and may take a few hours, or at
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| most a few days, and thus represents a suitable micro-increment.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <em>Develop Solution Increment.</em> Defining, designing, implementing, and testing a use case or even a scenario
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| can take weeks or longer. To ensure continuous progress, we seek to divide the work into smaller increments, each
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| of which can be done in a couple of days. A more suitable micro-increment may be to only define, design, implement,
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| and test a subflow of a use-case or step within a scenario.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <em>Agree on Technical Approach for Persistency.</em> Agreeing on your technical solution may take quite some time,
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| so we need to narrow the task to something that can be defined and agreed to in a short time. One way to partition
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| the work is according to the issues you need to resolve, such as persistency or reporting. This micro-increment
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| will probably involve defining requirements, surveying available assets, prototyping, and documentating the
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| decisions.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <em>Plan Iteration.</em> This micro-increment could include setting up a meeting for creating the iteration plan,
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| doing some preparation for the meeting, such as reviewing candidate work items, coaching the team through the
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| iteration planning meeting, and posting the iteration plan for easy access. The end result is something complete
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| and measurable, a posted plan that has buy-in from the team.
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>
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| Your application evolves in micro-increments through simultaneous execution of a number of work items. By openly
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| sharing progress on your micro-increments through daily team meetings and team collaboration tools, you achieve the
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| transparency and insight into each other’s work required for effective teamwork. At the same time, you demonstrate
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| continuous progress by evolving your application one micro-increment at the time.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| OpenUP provides a set of activities. Each activity is captured as a set of tasks, steps within tasks, and guidance.
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| Even thought micro-increments are not an explicit construct in the process, you will find descriptions of how to carry
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| out a set of related micro-increments that are commonly found in projects within the activity. OpenUP does not provide
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| a complete description of potential micro-increments, and each organization should consider adding their own ‘recipes’
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| for commonly occurring micro-increments.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| OpenUP provides a powerful learning tool and makes it easier to find relevant guidance by outlining when you are most
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| likely to carry out various tasks. This is done through a visualization of the delivery process which provides a
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| time-based organization of the tasks within the context of a <a class="elementLink"
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| href="./../../../openup/guidances/concepts/project_lifecycle_203F87.html" guid="_nSfVwCNYEdyCq8v2ZO4QcA">Project
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| Lifecycle</a>. As an example, you are more likely to agree on a technical approach early in the project. This doesn’t
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| mean you wouldn’t make technical decisions late in the project. A process is like a map, use it to understand the big
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| picture and as a reference, but when reality and map don’t match, trust reality.
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