Release/Iteration Planning

Planning is critical to the success of your Extreme Programming project. This service gives your team a chance to be guided through Release and Iteration Planning by us. Upon completion of your project's first Release and Iteration plans, you will know how to conduct Iteration Planning meetings and you'll understand when and how to update your Release plan.

Below are photographs of a team at a major financial institution that used our Release/Iteration Planning services.

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Discussing	Estimating

What We Do

We begin by assembling your project's users, managers, operations people, QA staff and all of the developers for three to five days. Anyone who is not a developer is considered to be a customer. Once everyone is together, we help create your first Release and Iteration Plans by helping you:

Write Stories
Customers write what we call stories. This involves identifying the largest chunks of behavior desired in your system and writing down very brief stories about them. Each story is described on a post-it note and attached to an index card, which contains the story header. Some teams generate about 30 to 100 stories.
Estimate
Next, the developers estimate every story using a simple estimation technique. If a story is too big to estimate, the developers ask the customers to split the story.
Choose Stories
Once all stories have been estimated, the Customer chooses which stories will go into the Release or Iteration plan, based on the estimates provided by the developers.

Ofcourse, that's just a brief summary of the steps. By having us facilitate your first Release & Iteration Planning meetings, you will really understand how this process works and your project will benefit from it.

To learn more about this service, including prices, please contact us.

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