Release Planning

It may be time to retire the phrase release planning from the Scrum or agile vocabulary.

Maybe you’ve heard about agile software development projects but aren’t sure if they allow for the …

How do we estimate how many hours it will take to deliver a given product backlog if we have no …

Teams with subgroups formed around compatible skills, attitudes and approaches to work are less …

The One-Handed Clock is a useful visual metaphor that can be hung in a team room.

An agile team does release planning to avoid the same type of problems we avoid with a topographic …

We've already overloaded the word backlog with product backlog and sprint backlog. Why confuse …

As a measure of the amount of work completed in an iteration, velocity works extremely well when …

Treemaps are an excellent way of visualizing large product backlogs.

By producing a single chart that shows both a team's rate of progress and the product backlog, we …

I don't use story points for sprint planning because story points are a useful long-term measure. …

The release sprint is not a dumping ground for sloppy work.

In sprint planning the team should always talk of tasks and hours.