From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories

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Iteration planning

Iteration planning

From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories

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Iteration planning

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- Iterations are the foundation and fundamental building block of a time-boxed agile approach. Each iteration is a fixed duration wherein the agile team implements a portion of the project scope. An essential recurring event is iteration planning. At the beginning of each iteration, the team conducts a detailed planning event to determine what they will commit to doing in that time box, and how they will get the work done. There is a flow to this event that teams go through, resulting in an iteration backlog containing the stories the team commits to doing, tasks required, and who will do them. Iteration planning occurs at the very beginning of each iteration. Teams new to this event can use the following rule of thumb, two hours of planning for every week in the iteration. A team using a two week iteration cadence would plan for this event to take four hours. Some iterations will take longer to plan, well, others will take less. Take whatever time is required to plan the iteration…

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