💡 The Increment is the combined product work completed and integrated used to deliver and show value to our customers and stakeholders.
Key characteristics #
The Increment must be working and usable so that our customers and stakeholders can interact with it and see it in action.
It does not have to be already in production and available to all users.
The term we use in regards to the increment is potentially releasable which means that no more work is needed to be done in order to release this Increment into the hands of active users.
Example #
If our product is an e-commerce website, the latest version of our website can be considered an Increment. We may have a staging environment that has this version that is only available internally and cannot be used by the website visitors yet.
As an example, let’s say this Sprint the team has been working on fixing some bugs found on the website and on building a new landing page. In the Sprint Review, they will show the completed work and demonstrate it to the stakeholders on their staging site. They can show that the bugs have been fixed and also show the landing page they have created in action.
This Increment can be released to production to make it available to all website visitors.
Commitment: Definition of Done #
The commitment associated with the Increment is the Definition of Done
