## Why We received a significant amount of feedback that automated iteration cadence management was not flexible enough for teams. In the long run, we believe the need for flexibility will be solved with improvements to automated cadences such as integrating capacity into planning, velocity/volatility, and more. However, in the near term, we need to support our customers by re-introducing the ability to manually manage iterations within a cadence. ## Scope - Add the ability to enable/disable automated scheduling. - Add the ability to adjust the date ranges of open iterations. - All iterations (automated or manual) can have a custom title. - The day of the week iterations start can be changed at any point in time. - The duration of the iterations within a cadence can be changed at any point in time. - The number of future iterations within a cadence can be changed at any point in time. - When updating any of the cadence settings, future iterations are gracefully updated to reflect the new settings. ## Business rules - Iterations within a cadence cannot have overlapping dates. - There can never be two open iterations within a cadence. ### Release Notes In 15.0, we announced the deprecation of manual iteration management within iteration cadences. We received a significant amount of feedback that in certain cases, automated iteration cadence management was not flexible enough for some teams. We also listened to the feedback on the importance of defining a custom name for each iteration with a cadence and needing the ability to stop automatically generating new iterations within a cadence that is no longer being used. As of 15.4, we're re-introducing the ability to manually create iterations and providing improved controls for managing the automation settings within a cadence. You can now disable or re-enable automatic scheduling or change the duration and upcoming iterations at any point in time. If automated scheduling was previously disabled and you would like to re-enable it, simply select a new start date when you want the automated scheduling to become active again. When your iteration cadence is in manual mode, you must manually create and set the date ranges for each iteration during the creation process. Whether in automatic or manual mode, you can now edit an individual iteration to update its title.  https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/iterations/#create-an-iteration-cadence