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A feature’s plan is what Iron Octopus will build and how you’ll know it’s done. By default, nothing is built until you approve the plan.

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What a plan contains

  • Acceptance criteria: what has to be true for the feature to be done. See requirements.
  • Work items: the pieces of work, each with a risk level that sets how closely it’s reviewed.
  • Recorded assumptions: the answers Iron Octopus assumed for questions you skipped.
You can change the plan and its acceptance criteria while the feature is in Planning. Each change to the acceptance criteria is kept as a new version, so the record shows what was agreed and when.

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Approve the plan

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Find it on Home

When a plan is ready, the feature appears under Needs you as Ready to build, with any recorded assumptions listed so you can check them.
2

Open and read it

Open the feature to read the full plan. Change anything that isn’t right before you start.
3

Click Start building

This records your approval of the plan and moves the feature to Building. Iron Octopus starts on the work items.

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When a feature can’t start yet

A feature stays in Planning until it’s ready. The feature page tells you what’s missing:

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Changing the rule

Approving the plan is a built-in rule that’s on by default. You can change it so features start building without your approval, for one project or for your whole workspace.