project plan preparation based on Agile development

Hi Kiron,

We have a single team that is working on both products at the same time. The tickets related to both the products are tracked in the same Sprint. The developer will work on product1 ticket and once he/she has completed the implementation, the ticket is moved to QA.. the developer then moves onto product2's ticket..
Just to understand with regard to project planning. At the beginning of the project, since we don't know in which Sprint the ticket will be addressed, i assume that the plan will only be populated for the 1st Sprint. Once Sprint1 is completed and the team moves onto Sprint2, then the plan will be updated.. is this understanding correct?
Is there a concept of Baseline in Agile development? How does one track the progress of the project?

thanks a lot for your inputs/help..

Robert.

My last client had the tech teams use Agile, but the ePMO & finance insisted upon project plans. The two are in conflict.

My resolution was to put
A) all actual work, ie user stories into TFS (now Visual Studio Team Services, pretty cool). These had the tasks & bugs assigned to it.
B) Epics & Features were the bottom 2 layers of the WBS in the traditional project plan.

If you must track actual hours in project, like I had to, then create a final layer with
"Iteration 2 work", "Iteration 3 work", but only for those iterations where the feature is being worked upon. Don't always start at 1.

Even in Agile, you can target how many iterations it'll take to complete a feature. It'll change, but that's true even in traditional project plans, and why project managers aren't just secretaries who administer a written-in-stone plan created at the beginning of the project.

That way finance & ePMO got their pretty gantt charts with finger-in-the-wind estimates of feature completion, and engineers have the freedom to complete the work in the appropriate fashion.

Hi Vivek

Thanks for your inputs. Will it be possible to share a template of what you describe?

thanks
Robert.

give me 24 hours, i'll mock something up. I'm in the middle of writing a full mock project as part of a white paper, I have the Epics/Features, but no project plan (yet). Will knock that out today.