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| A fine-grained plan describing the objectives, work assignments, and evaluation criteria for the iteration. |
| Domains: Project Management |
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Purpose
The main objectives of the iteration plan are to provide the team with:
- One central place for information regarding iteration objectives
- A detailed plan with task assignments
- Evaluation results
This artifact also helps the team to
monitor the progress of the iteration, and keeps the results of the iteration assessment that may be useful for
improving the next one.
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Description
| Main Description |
This artifact captures the key milestones of an iteration, showing start and end dates, intermediate milestones,
synchronization points with other teams, demos, and so on. This artifact is also used to capture issues that need to be
solved during the iteration.
You should list a few objectives for the iteration, which will help guide you throughout the iteration. Also, assess
at the end if those objectives have been achieved.
The task assignments for an iteration are a subset of all tasks on the Artifact: Work Items List. Therefore, the iteration plan ideally references
those work items.
The evaluation criteria and iteration assessment information are captured in this artifact, so that you can communicate results and actions from
assessments.
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Illustrations
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Key Considerations
Work items assigned to an iteration do not necessarily have the same priority. When selecting work items from the Work
Items List, the iteration plan may end up having work items with different priorities (for example, you assign the
remaining high priority work items, plus a few mid-priority ones from the Work Items List). When work items are assigned
to an iteration, no matter what their previous priorities, the team has to make sure that they are able to develop
what has been assigned to the iteration. Deciding what to develop first (or
even to develop things in parallel) on an iteration will vary from project to project, from iteration to iteration.
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Tailoring
| Impact of not having | Without this artifact, it will be difficult to assess the results of an iteration to determine whether or not the
objectives have been met. |
| Reasons for not needing | This artifact is not required if no iterations are being performed, or if the scope of the project and each iteration is
sufficiently small as to be handled informally amongst the team. |
| Representation Options |
The level of detail or formality of the plan must be adapted to what you need in order to meet these objectives successfully. The
plan could, for example, be captured on the following places:
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A whiteboard listing the objectives, task assignments, and evaluation criteria
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A one-page document listing the objectives and evaluation criteria of the iteration, as well as referencing the Work
Items List for assignments for that iteration
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A more complex document, supported by a Gantt or Pert chart in a project planning tool
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