26. Agile Planning

IN THIS CHAPTER, we explore the nature of plans and explain the way an Agile team engages in planning at various times throughout the project: daily, weekly, and quarterly. The resulting task, iteration, and release plans are simple to follow as well as easy to produce, which enables a team to control its project more dynamically. In this way, a team can respond effectively to changes in the business environment as well as its own rate of progress, thereby helping the team to satisfy the business it serves through the early and continuous delivery of valuable software.1

The Nature of Plans

Plans help us organize a project by creating a schedule of work so that everyone on the team knows what he must do next. Good plans arrange ...

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