How-to plan an Extreme Programming iteration

Iteration Planning by Don Wells

This guide is meant to be a resource for anyone on the team who is facilitating a Sprint planning meeting. It’s broken down into two main sections:

• Preparatory Activities: Tasks to be done before the meeting.
• Sprint Planning Activities: The agenda for the meeting itself.

Some of the items in the guide may not be relevant to every sprint, so feel free to adapt it to your specific needs.

Preparatory Activities

Create a draft of the Sprint Goals

Prioritize work items based on their Estimated Business Value

Review flagged work items in the Sprint Backlog

Example mapping sessions to clarify and confirm the Acceptance Criteria

Develop Iteration Regression Plans for the functional areas affected by the Iteration scope

Incremental Design and Architecture to support the Iteration scope