From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
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Writing your release plan
From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
Writing your release plan
- In Agile, there isn't a release schedule. Many teams will release working software at the end of every sprint. Some teams, even sooner. But that doesn't mean you can't plan on bundles of value delivered over time. In many organizations, it's still important to align your Agile delivery with other projects. Agile projects don't have milestones. There's no scope. There's nothing to split into quarters, months, or weeks. Instead, Agile has groups of stories called epics. Your epic should represent a large chunk of customer value. What you can do with these epics is create a rough order of value, or ROV. These are planned groupings of epics that you can deliver over time. To create a release plan, you can assemble all the stakeholders and do some real-time horse trading. In this event, the scrum master puts all the epics on a trading board. The team has a set number of stories that they can deliver in each sprint. This is called the team's velocity. Their velocity might be 50 story…
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