Understanding estimation and planning of your projects
Estimating and planning are critical to the success of software development irrespective of the projects size. The agile teams usually use the planning onion concept. They plan at least at the release, iteration, and day level. Release planning considers the user stories that will be developed for a new release of a product or system. It determines an appropriate answer to the questions of scope, schedule, and resources for a projects. Release planning occurs at the start of a projects.
During iteration planning, we talk about the tasks that will be needed to transform a feature request into a working and tested software.
Most agile teams use the daily stand-up meeting to coordinate work and synchronize daily efforts. It might seem excessive to consider this planning in a formal sense; teams make, assess, and revise their plans during these meetings:
Planning onion
Planning is preceded by estimating (estimating the resources, time, and size...
