Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#

3. Planning

© Jennifer M. Kohnke

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

—Lord Kelvin, 1883

What follows is a description of the Planning Game from Extreme Programming.¹ It is similar to the way planning is done in several of the other agile² methods: SCRUM,³ Crystal,⁴ feature-driven development,⁵ and adaptive software development (ADP).⁶ However, none of those processes spell it out in as much detail and rigor.

Initial Exploration

At the start of the project, ...