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Identify versions, releases, and sprints

Identify versions, releases, and sprints

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Identify versions, releases, and sprints

- There are few things as important as defining your timeline. Sometimes deadlines are set for you based on some business or company goal. And sometimes you set your own based on the amount of work you need to do for your product. While I can't guide you on exactly how to estimate your product timeline, I can't provide tips on how to approach your schedule, to give you the ability to adjust and tailor it to your product and team. When we build software, we generally build it in versions. We begin with several minor releases, either privately to a closed group or publicly as a beta, that's followed by the major release. After that minor releases are made that could either be public or private leading up to another major release. Over time, you'll have minor and major releases to add new features along the way. One way to show this is with major and minor release numbers, like 1.0 or 4.3. The first number is the major…

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