Chapter 3. Planning

© Jennifer M. Kohnke

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

Lord Kelvin, 1883

What follows is a description of the Planning Game from Extreme Programming.^[1] It is similar to the way planning is done in several of the other agile^[2] methods: SCRUM,^[3] Crystal,^[4] feature-driven development,^[5] and adaptive software development (ADP).^[6] However, none of those processes spell it out in as much detail and rigor.

^[1] [Beck99], [Newkirk2001]

^[2] www.AgileAlliance.org

^[3] www.controlchaos.com

^[4] [Cockburn2005]

^[5] Peter Coad, Eric Lefebvre, and Jeff De Luca, Java Modeling in Color with UML: Enterprise Components and Process, Prentice Hall, 1999.

^[6] [Highsmith2000]