Agile planning happens at multiple levels including a daily plan, an sprint plan and a strategic plan. What term best describes the multi-level planning?

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Options

• APlanning Onion
• BPlanning Poker
• CSprint Planning

• A
  94% (29)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  3% (1)

Explanation

Planning Onion describes the concept of multi-level Agile planning because, like the layers of an onion, planning occurs at nested levels of increasing granularity - from long-term strategic planning (product roadmap), to medium-term release planning, to sprint planning, down to daily stand-up plans. Each layer informs the ones inside it.

Planning Poker (B) is a specific estimation technique where team members use numbered cards to vote on story point effort - it's about estimating, not describing planning levels.

Sprint Planning (C) refers to just one ceremony within Agile (the meeting that kicks off a sprint) - it is a single layer of planning, not a term for the multi-level concept.

Memory tip: Picture an actual onion - peel back the outer layers (strategic/release) to get to the inner layers (sprint/daily). The "onion" metaphor makes the nesting intuitive, and the name matches the shape of the diagram commonly used to illustrate it.

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