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Category Archives: Release Planning
Release Planning: Business Value
[For those who have not been reading before, this is a continuation of a series that starts here.] Now we move on to Business Value in Release Planning. As Yogi Berra said: “You have to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” If you are in […]
Release Planning: Product Backlog
[This post is one in a series on Release Planning, which starts here.] After we complete the Vision, we must develop the Product Backlog. There are two parts to this. First, we must define the Roles to use in the User Stories. Second, we must write User Stories. I call this second part a User […]
Release Planning: Vision
[This is one in a series on Release Planning. The series starts here.] This is the first of several posts on my suggestions for the details of doing better agile Release Planning. The first step is Vision. We define the vision, and make sure that all the right people see the same vision and “agree […]
Why add a Workshop Day to the CSM course?
Apparently I am one of the few Scrum Alliance CSTs (Certified Scrum Trainers) who always adds a Workshop day (or 2) to the CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) course. Why do I add the workshop day? The simple reason is because the attendees demand it. Honestly, before they have taken the course the attendees don’t really know […]
Release Planning: Business Value Points
One difference between what I recommend for Release Planning and what others recommend is Business Value Points (BVPs). What do I mean? First, is it useful to distinguish the Business Value (BV) of items in the Product Backlog? Yes, of course. Why? Many ways to explain. One: Pareto says you can re-apply the Pareto rule […]
Joe’s Approach to Agile Release Planning
Agile Release Planning is technically not part of Scrum. But I think almost all Teams need it. As a coach, here are my thoughts on what Agile Release Planning should comprise. For 5-7 months of work, this could be done in about 1 day (maybe into a second day). With good enough quality to then […]
Release Planning with Business Stakeholders
I just posted in the Yahoo group Agile Business the following: The past 3 (business) days I worked with a team in Atlanta to do release planning with the Business Stakeholders. The business stakeholders were external customers. I was extremely impressed with the results. I strongly recommend it. Situation: * 15 people (6 pigs, 3 […]
Why Release Planning?
I led a discussion at the Ottawa Agile and Scrum groups last week. I asked the group to come up with some reasons to do Release Planning. In essence, they represent the meta ‘purposes’ of release planning. Purposes that one’s approach to Release Planning should try to optimize. The group came up with many good […]
Giving context
I am in Norfolk and the weather is foggy, and I am thinking about how best to do Release Planning. More specifically, how to plan for a big two-year project where everyone is used to a waterfall approach. So, here are some thoughts. Our problem is like being lost at sea in a fog — […]
Scrum and Release Planning
I went to the Agile Ottawa group last night. Mostly I very much enjoyed the meeting — a lot of smart people, a lot of good discussions, but… A Sad Tale A gentleman there, a serious business guy, new to Scrum, said something like this: “It seems to me that Scrum has no up-front planning, […]