Agile Planning
What is Agile Planning?
During planning the team defines the series of releases, possibly with their release dates and goals. Releases are then broken into multiple sprints, each with a prioritized list of work items. Work items are elaborated to the necessary level, without big upfront design work.
What is the Planner?
Planner is the primary interface in Codebeamer to support all aspects of planning:
• Define releases
• Break releases into sprints (or sub-releases)
• Define the work to do
◦ Create new work items (user stories, tasks, tests, etc.) or update existing ones.
◦ Move work items from backlogs to concrete releases or sprints and vice versa.
◦ Prioritize work (defining the order in which the work items should be done).
◦ Assign work to team members (defining who is responsible for which work item)
◦ Estimate work using Story Points.
The planner can be successfully used with agile and other methodologies. More traditional methodologies like Waterfall or V-model can leverage the quick interactions in the planner to define the release schedule, define and assign work, and so on.