What should the team do next?

Once the team has clarity on the user stories and agrees they are ready, the next step in agile planning is to estimate them. According to the PMI Agile Practice Guide (Section 5.2: Estimating) and Mike Griffiths’ PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book (Chapter 6: Adaptive Planning), agile estimation techniques like story points or Planning Poker help the team gain a shared understanding of effort, complexity, and delivery time.

Option A is correct: estimating comes before development and guides prioritization and planning.

Option B prematurely dives into task-level detail before effort is understood.

Option C skips planning and development entirely.

Option D refers to retrospective, which comes after execution, not before.