How many cycles do I need?
Your program decides, and one complete cycle with the next plan visible is a common minimum. What matters is that the second plan is genuinely shaped by what the first cycle showed, rather than being what you intended to do anyway.
This comes up on Action Research Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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