Planning the Construction Phase
There are many ways to plan an iterative project. It's important that you develop a plan in order to be aware of progress and to signal progress through the team. The approach to planning I use is based on the techniques in Extreme Programming Explained (Beck 2000).
The essence of building a plan involves setting up a series of iterations for construction and defining the functionality to deliver in each iteration. Some people like to use small use cases and complete a use case within an iteration; others like to use larger use cases, doing some scenarios in one iteration and others later. The basic process is the same. I'll describe it with the smaller use cases.
During planning, I like to consider two groups ...
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