Agile Release Planning Workshop
Contents
Overview
2-5 days
In Scrum and most other agile methods there is a period, before the first iteration, during which we need to create a release plan or initial Product Backlog of high-level requirements, estimates, and so forth. A target date and content goal are needed. In Scrum terms, we need to create the Release Backlog -- the subset of the Product Backlog describing the next release, in terms of items, effort estimates, value estimates, risk, and priority.
Learning how to do agile release planning requires coaching-while-doing; it can't be effectively learnt in a classroom setting. In this workshop, the coach will facilitate the activities of release planning for a real product, while educating.
Methods of Education
primarily workshop exercises & coaching; some discussion, presentation, Q&A
Audience
This can be for 1 or 2 (maximum) product groups. Attendees should include a cross-functional representation from product management, developers, testers, marketing, sales, and other relevant stakeholders
Level
This is an immersive workshop. No prior knowledge is required, but the experiences and knowledge will extend from introductory to intermediate or advanced.
Prerequisites
none.
Objectives
This is not a course per se, but a product-specific (or 2 products maximum) workshop to create the release plan for a Scrum-based development release. Nevertheless, learning how to do agile release planning is an important complimentary goal, in addition to actually creating the plan. Thus, learning objectives include (but are not limited to):
- agile estimating and planning
- modeling with user stories
- splitting large user stories
- mind mapping
- affinity clustering
- Scrum Product Backlog creation
- prioritization in Scrum
- much more
Outline
- Vision workshop
- Effect mapping
- Requirements workshop
- Effort estimation workshop
- Value estimation workshop
- Risk estimation workshop
- Product (Release) Backlog shaping and prioritization
Maximum Participants
30
Environment - Room, Tools, Texts
Read this: Course Environment - Workshop Style1
Text and Notes
- a useful pre-read is The Scrum Primer