Agile Project Milestones

Let’s talk about project milestones. As we all know Agile organization should focus on value creation. At the same time many organizations are still facing customers that are expecting to have project milestones. In this case I urge these organizations to avoid defining milestones that do not deliver any value. For example: Preliminary Design Review – PDR or Critical Design Review – CDR are not a valid milestone in the Agile world. In such milestones the organization delivers “conceptual” content: architecture, design etc. Design should be done but, only within the framework of the project increment that ends in working system and value delivery.