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Agile Release Planning - My practical methods

One real-world approach to initial agile release planning for one team. With suggestions for Product Backlog Refinement.

Joseph Little

Need help getting your Team started? Want to do "just enough" upfront work before starting the first Sprint? Confused how to gather, share and create knowledge? Let me share some ideas that work.

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About the Book

If you follow this book, you will get your team started.

Your Team will have a Vision.

The Team will have a Product Backlog.

The five experts will vote and discuss relative BV Points.

The user stories will have story point estimates by the Developers.

The Prod Bklog will be in ROI order, plus other factors.

They will have estimated the Velocity of the Team and have a sense of when the Releases are possible.

And they will have started to manage expectations, and started moving toward success.

Most importantly, they will all see the same elephant, be more motivated, and have shared the tacit knowledge.

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Joseph Little

I am an Agile Coach and Trainer (CST).

See LeanAgileTraining.com and the blog there.

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. The Agile Release Planning workshop
  2. Planning, Not Plans
  3. Emerging
  4. Final Version
  5. About this book
  6. Warnings

Comments on the ‘no estimates’ idea

Why Agile Release Planning?

The Story Begins

  1. Next steps
  2. What Happened
  3. What Happened Next?

My Approach — Summary

  1. The People
  2. The Process
  3. Product Backlog Refinement
  4. Comments on initial Agile Release Planning

My Approach - The Details

The People

Vision

Product Backlog

  1. Roles
  2. User Story Workshop

Business Value

  1. Business Drivers
  2. Completing the Drivers
  3. Priority Poker

Effort

  1. Definition of Done
  2. Planning Poker

The R Factor

Ordering by R Factor

Risks, Dependencies, Learning, MMFS, Other

Completing the Plan

  1. Estimating Velocity
  2. Finishing the Plan
  3. Communicating the Plan
  4. The Fix-It Plan
  5. ‘Finalizing’ the Plan

The ‘OTHER’

  1. Other steps or activities we might add to the ARP Day
  2. I-A-D (Infrastructure, Architecture, Design)

Closing Up

  1. When is the Initial Release Planning completed?
  2. What do you have ‘in hand’ at the end?

The Real Value

Product Backlog Refinement

  1. What’s Next?

The Steering Committe (and the Team)

  1. My key point

Key Ideas

  1. Suggested, not Prescriptive
  2. About people and common sense

Reminder

Appendices

  1. The Agile Release Planning workshop
  2. FAQ
  3. Note on the Author
  4. Glossary

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