Mastering GitLab 12

Iteration planning

Depending on the speed of the team, it can be determined how many story points the team can do per iteration. Iterations can last from one to three weeks. The focus here is on creating tasks and prioritizing them. The iterations also have the same phases as the earlier release planning, as follows:

• Exploration phase: During the research phase of iteration planning, the user stories are divided into tasks, and how long a task will take is estimated. The main activities in this phase include the following:
  • Translating the user story into tasks and writing them on task cards.
  • Adding or splitting tasks; in other words, if the developer cannot properly estimate how long a task will last because it is too big or too small, ...