Page title:Introduction

Closed Captioning text:Teams that follow agile development methods typically divide their release schedule into a series of fixed-length development periods called iterations. You can use Rational Team Concert to define your team’s development iterations and create and update iteration plans to manage your team’s work.

Page text: Agile Development is a form of iterative development that takes advantage of the use of small teams to create products that deliver business value early and often during the project lifecycle.

Page title:Development lines and iterations

Closed Captioning text:A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own schedule, deliverables, teams, and process. Project intervals or phases are defined within a development line and expressed as a hierarchy of iterations that can define start and end dates.

Page text:A project with both new product release development and current product maintenance might define these two efforts in separate development lines because they have different delivery schedules, teams, and processes.

Page title:Iteration planning

Closed Captioning text:You can use Rational Team Concert to create iteration plans that are specific to a single team area and project iteration. Use the plan to provide an overview of the iteration and its goals. You can add pages to the plan for other documentation. You can plan for iterations by scheduling the work during an iteration and assigning work to members of the team. Plans are accessible to everyone on the team and change dynamically during the iteration to reflect the team's progress. You can use the Planned Items page of an iteration plan to view and manage work items and team loads. You can also review progress using charts or progress indicators.

Page text:To be effective, iteration plans need to be accessible to everyone on the team and they need to change dynamically over the course of the iteration to reflect the team's position and direction.

Page title:Work item management

Closed Captioning text:Iteration plans are associated with a team area. Because categories are also associated with a team, Rational Team Concert displays work items in the responsible team's iteration plan based on the work item's category and the planned iteration settings. You can use iteration plans to manage work items that are planned for completion during the iteration. In the iteration plan, you can change work item fields, such as estimated duration, priority, and owner.

Page text:Before beginning work on an iteration plan, define the iterations, team areas, and work item categories for your project.

Page title:Summary

Closed Captioning text:Iteration planning is an important component of agile development. You can use Rational Team Concert to define your development lines and iterations and create iteration plans to help you manage your team’s work.

Page text:Each iteration produced during agile development is complete and stable: it contains not only working code and functionality, but usable documentation and a working user interface.