Testing in Scrum

3 Planning an Agile Project

This chapter describes the lightweight project management tools that Scrum uses in place of a traditional project plan. It is aimed primarily at readers who wish to make the switch to agile development, but nevertheless contains plenty of comments and tips on the error prevention that using agile planning tools can provide.

Agile project management is based on the assumption that the team learns from every Sprint. Poor decisions can be examined and corrected in subsequent Sprints and the team can react quickly to changes in the project’s environment. Each new product increment that a Sprint produces gives the team and the customer new insights into the product’s true requirements. Of course, each increment can also ...