Iteration Planning Extra Quality -

No one said anything. Everyone had learned that pointing out math was seen as “resistance.”

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. iteration planning

“Okay,” said Priya, the tech lead. “Let’s size them.” No one said anything

They picked the refactor first. Then payment retry. Then the compliance field. But so was the memory leak in the reporting engine

Then Priya did something unexpected. She closed her laptop.

“We need to get the payment retry logic in,” she said. “Business says failed payments are the top drop-off point.”

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.