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Iteration planning

Iteration planning

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Iteration planning

- [Instructor] Iteration planning is used for medium scale feedback. It takes place at the scale of weeks. Iteration planning is the act of gathering together as a team to plan the next iteration of work and product deliveries. An iteration in Extreme programming is exactly the same thing as a sprint in Scrum. Iteration planning in XP is exactly the same thing as sprint planning in Scrum. As a team works through their release plan together, they operate on a shorter scale rhythm. That rhythm is called the iteration. An iteration is a short unit of time, typically one to two weeks in duration. Now there's no rule that specifies iteration length. It doesn't matter what your exact iteration length is. It could be two weeks, one week or even half a week. But it does have to be relatively short, certainly less than a month. And once you pick an iteration length, it doesn't change. It will be the same number of weeks every time. Many teams use two weeks as the length of their iteration…

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