Iteration Planning _verified_ May 2026

They started with payment retry. Five points. Then compliance. Three points. Then reporting. Eight points—big, but doable.

“Reporting can wait,” Priya said. “It’s slow, but it works. Marketing’s tickets can wait. They always say urgent, but check last sprint—they didn’t even test the thing we rushed for them.” iteration planning

“Let’s try something,” she said. “No points.” They started with payment retry

Leo nodded. That was a real problem. But so was the memory leak in the reporting engine. And the new compliance field. And the thing no one wanted to talk about: the gnarly refactor they’d been postponing for four sprints. but doable. “Reporting can wait

By the end of an hour, the sprint had twenty-seven points. The team’s historical velocity was twenty-two.