The Difference Between Incremental and Iterative
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 - 09:42 - Book content, Chapter 2: Agile Methodologies
The difference between an incremental approach and an iterative approach is that the incremental approach does not require going back and changing things that are already delivered; the focus is only the requirements that have not yet been implemented. In the incremental plan, you don’t learn by the previous work, and the final product is not based on knowledge acquired during the journey. Here is a visual example of the difference between the incremental and iterative approach:
The book Agile Leadership is about organizing software development and leadership in a knowledge based organization. 