Agile WordPress development

Short cycles work on WordPress projects for the same reason they work elsewhere: they surface disagreement while it is still cheap.

What we actually do differently

We ship to a staging environment continuously from the first week. You review working software rather than a specification, and the specification updates to match reality instead of the other way round.

Scoping in slices

A slice is a piece of the product you could put in front of a real user: a funnel step, a content type with its templates, a checkout path. Slicing by layer ("first the database, then the API") produces long stretches with nothing to look at, which is where projects lose their nerve.

Review gates that do not block delivery

Each slice ends with a short review: does it do what was described, does it hold up on a phone, is it accessible, is it measured. Sign-off is a structured decision, not a mood.

Practices we hold to

• Everything on staging, continuously
• Written acceptance criteria per slice
• Accessibility and performance checked per slice, not at the end
• Analytics and events deployed with the feature, not after it

Related

See writing a brief and choosing an agency.