AgileReleasePlanning
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This document discusses agile release planning compared to traditional project planning. It notes that traditional plans are often inaccurate, with over 50% of projects exceeding budgets and timelines. Agile release planning involves establishing a rough initial plan and revisiting it after each sprint as more is learned. Velocity and point estimates are used to continually update the plan rather than focusing on accuracy of initial estimates. The benefits of agile release planning include being able to learn from and react to emerging patterns faster, having a self-managing team, and increasing stakeholder confidence in predicted release dates.
AgileReleasePlanning
- 1. Agile Release Planning Madhavi Pastamatla
- 2. Traditional Project Planning • Plan, Plan, Plan • Hope the estimates, turn out well. • Statistics show, more than 50% of projects exceed time, budget and are of poor quality. The estimates could be off by a significant percentage. MP 2
- 3. Agile Release Planning • So do we not plan at all? • Plan very roughly at the beginning. Revisit plans after each sprint and also as scope emerges. • Velocity and Point estimates are used to plan. • Focus is not on how good one can estimate. But about understanding emerging patterns and ability to act accordingly. MP 3
- 4. Planning • Release Planning refers to determining a balance between a project timeline and a desired set of functionality. • If velocity is unknown, Agile exercises with team help establish a decent base velocity. • Point estimates are relative specifications that take into consideration effort, complexity, risks and uncertainties involved to get a feature out to customer. MP 4
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- 6. Benefit • Learn from and React faster from the emerging patterns. • As the team embraces the Agile techniques, they become more self engaging and self managed. • Knowing the current state of release, the team can better adjust the top priority business value items. • As team continues to practice planning, the confidence level of stakeholders increases, for predicted product release dates. MP 6