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Dual-Track Agile

TTool · Dual-Track Agile

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The backlog's full of features nobody validated. Discovery finished months ago. The team's building what was true then, not what's true now.

Dual-Track Agile is Jeff Patton's approach to running discovery and delivery as parallel workstreams rather than sequential phases. You keep one track validating problems and solutions whilst the other builds what's already been proven.

Two parallel horizontal tracks running across six columns labelled sprint 1 to sprint 6: an upper "discovery" track (interviews, prototype, test v1, interviews, prototype, test v2) and a lower "delivery" track (ship v1, ship v1.1, ship v2, ship v2.1), with a connector noting "validated learning hands off to delivery".
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