Agile planning — peeling back the layers
There’s a myth that Agile ignores planning. In fact, Agile has a strong focus on planning. Rather than doing all the planning upfront, in Agile you do more detailed planning when you have more detailed information. You adjust your plans based on what you learn about your product and your users by delivering working solutions in short iterations.
The planning onion shows different levels of planning:
Product vision
Explains why you’re building the product. Describes how your product will make the world a better place, showing how it will help your customers and achieve the strategic goals of your organisation.
Product roadmap
Breaks down the vision and maps out the steps along the way to achieve it.
Release plan
A prioritised backlog of features that represent smaller plans driving toward the product vision.
Iteration plan
A subset of the release plan stories that will be done in the very next iteration or sprint.
Daily plan
The plan for the day (talked about at the daily stand up).
Project planning workshop guide
Our Agile discovery workshop guide shows you how to go from your Product vision to being ready for your first iteration, all in a single day.
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