Release plan

While the product roadmap is strategic in nature, the release plan is more tactical. The product roadmap shows the timing of release goals, high-level product capabilities, and epics that span multiple iterations, but the release plan provides more detail on a per-iteration basis. The product roadmap has a longer planning horizon of 12-24 months, while a release plan is more near term, generally 3-9 months out. This recipe relies on the Managing your backlog recipe, which appears earlier in this chapter.

Purpose

The purpose of the release plan is to show how the product backlog is allocated to the upcoming set of iterations and releases over the next 3-9 months.

Inputs and preconditions

The product vision and roadmap are sketched out and a reasonably complete product backlog has been established with work items that can fit within a single iteration.

Outputs and post conditions

The release plan provides a plan of the mapping of work items to the upcoming...