Article · 6 May 2026
Iterative delivery, after malleable software
Forty years of iterative-delivery literature describes the loop precisely and assumes, without saying so, that the iterator is the same legal entity that owns the artefact. This configuration lifts the assumption.
The argument
The iterator can cross contracts.
Malleable software lifts iterative delivery's silent precondition: the iterator no longer has to own the artefact.
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