5.2.3. Progress Iteratively · Collaborate and Promote Visibility
💡 First Principle: "Progress iteratively with feedback" breaks big work into manageable, learn-as-you-go steps; "collaborate and promote visibility" makes work and information shared and open — and the two depend on each other, since iteration needs feedback that only visibility provides.
Progress iteratively with feedback means organizing work into smaller, manageable pieces that can be executed and completed in a timely way, using feedback before, during, and after each iteration to adjust course. Big-bang efforts are riskier; iteration lets you learn and correct. Collaborate and promote visibility means working together across boundaries and making work, decisions, and information visible — because hidden work breeds duplication, mistrust, and poor decisions, while visibility enables coordination and good feedback.
⚠️ Exam Trap: Iteration is not "do it all at once but call the phases iterations." It means genuinely small increments with feedback loops. And "collaborate" includes promoting visibility — the two halves of principle 4 travel together.
Reflection Question: Why is "progress iteratively" much weaker without "collaborate and promote visibility" alongside it?
