How Does Agile Planning Work?

Planning an agile project isn’t all that much different from preparing for a busy long weekend. Instead of to-do lists and tasks, we use fancy names like master story lists and user stories.

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In agile, the master story list is your project to-do list. It contains all the high-level features (user stories) your customer will want to see in their software. It’s prioritized by your customer, it’s estimated by your development team, and it forms the basis of your project plan.

The engine for getting stuff done on an agile project is the iteration—a one- to two-week period where you take your customers’ most important ...

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