Agile release planning- Tools,Purpose and Benefits -Starweaver Group

What is Agile Release Planning?

Agile release planning is an approach to product management that takes into account the intangible and flexible nature of software development—as part of this approach, teams plan iterative sprints across incremental releases.

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When to do release planning in Scrum?

Release planning in Scrum happens every sprint, either as part of the sprint review or in the normal course of preparing for the subsequent sprint. Initial release planning takes place following envisioning / product planning and typically lasts a day or two.

Agile Release Planning

What is the purpose of release planning?

The purpose of release planning is to create a plan to deliver an increment to the product. It is done after every 2 to 3 months.

What are the most important factors to consider when creating a release plan?

A strategic release plan serves as a torch bearer to which team can follow and progress. The overall goal of a release plan should be to baseline the product roadmap and team’s commitment to achieving that.

An exhaustive release plan is done against planning for logistics that may vary from what should be the room size of meeting to market standards. The objective should be to mitigate risk factors, to be able to agree and make our commitments. There are certain other factors that need to be considered while you plan a release.

Some are as follows:

-Present state of team.

-Team velocity.

-Product backlog.

-Existing issues.

-Plan definition.

-Prioritization.

-Estimation gave by team.

-Logistics.

-Presence of stakeholders.

-Dependencies.

-Clarity.