Iteration Planning Guide

This Tuesday was no different. The team shuffled into the conference room, coffee in hand, Jira already glowing on the screen. Mia, the product owner, clicked through the backlog with the cheerful precision of someone who had never spent 3 a.m. debugging a race condition.

Leo hated iteration planning. Not because he didn’t see the value—he did—but because every two weeks, he sat in a room where time bent into a pretzel. Stories grew legs, points doubled, and the quiet dread of “What did we forget?” hovered like a low ceiling. iteration planning

Leo watched the board change. Twenty-seven points became three stories. The room exhaled. This Tuesday was no different

They argued for ten minutes. Then, reluctantly, they tried. coffee in hand