Release Planning Workshop
Description:
During a release planning workshop, we help you turn an estimated product backlog into a release plan that’s useful for making decisions.
By the end of the workshop you will have:
- A plan looking 3–6 months ahead, and possibly further
- A plan on which you can base decisions
- An understanding of how planning changes when creating a fixed-date, fixed-scope, or fixed-price plan
- The best estimate of a team’s velocity range
- An understanding of how reliable the team members’ estimates are
- Possible action steps to improve your teams’ estimates
- Confidence in how to communicate about the plan with leaders and stakeholders
This workshop is perfect for:
- Product owners, Scrum Masters, coaches, or managers who are being asked to create and commit to plans
This workshop is most effective after a team has estimated product backlog items with our help in a guided Estimating Workshop
Topics:
The workshop will begin with a discussion of your goals in creating a plan. We’ll then discuss how estimates were created and whether they seem a solid basis for a reliable plan. If not, we’ll give you specific steps you can take to improve team members’ estimates for future planning.
You will then be guided through the steps to estimate velocity and create the plan. We’ll discuss the level of confidence you should have in the plan and how to communicate the plan to stakeholders and leaders outside the team.