Enter the Agile Plan

In its simplest form, agile planning is nothing more than measuring the speed a team can turn user stories into working, production-ready software and then using that to figure out when they’ll be done.

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Our to-do list on an agile project is called the master story list. It contains a list of all the features our customers would like to see in their software.

The speed at which we turn user stories into working software is called the team velocity. It’s what we use for measuring our team’s productivity and for setting expectations about delivery dates in the future.

The engine for getting things done is the agile iteration ...

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