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Planning Extreme Programming
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Planning Extreme Programming

by Kent Beck, Martin Fowler
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
2h 32m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 17. Iteration Planning

  • Each iteration is planned by breaking down the stories for that iteration into tasks. Tasks are scheduled by asking programmers to sign up for the tasks they want, then asking them to estimate their tasks, then rebalancing as necessary.

The release plan is synchronized to the rhythms of business. It gives the business people a way of thinking about sets of stories that together tell a good story to the market. The iteration plan is synchronized to the rhythms of programming. Two weeks is long enough to

  • Develop some new functionality

  • Do a substantial refactoring

  • Develop some infrastructure

  • Try some experiments

  • Recover from little disappointments

Unlike the release plan, the iteration plan is very much the developers'. They ...

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