The envision phase is the initial phase of project management. Envision phase identifies customer’s vision of the project, decides the key capabilities required in the project, set the business objectives of the project, identifies the quality objectives of the project, and identifies the right participants and stakeholders of the project and plans how the team will deliver the project.

1. The team must come up with at least an initial understanding of the requirements for the project. Each feature will be further broken down into one or more “user stories” for the team to discuss and estimate.
2. The second aspect is to determine a high level milestone based plan that speculates how long it would take to create those features.

As the name suggests, in this phase agile team members explores various alternatives to implement and fulfill the requirements of a project. In this phase, work deliveries and testing takes place. Here, the product vision needs to be transformed to a release plan and then to the respective iteration plan.

In the adapt phase, the agile team reviews the results of execution, the current situation, performance of the team against the plan and adapt as per the requirements. Adaptation can be changing the approach to project, changing the process, changing the environment, changing the project’s objectives and so on as per the requirements of the customers. Taking feedback, acknowledging it and adapting to the situation based on the feedback is the major work of this phase.

This is the last phase within agile project management framework. It concludes the project in an ordered manner capturing the project’s key lessons.