Delivery cadence

Delivery cadence keeps sanity when managing expectations with your users during your production support activities. Publish delivery cadence and communicate how the requests are prioritized, scoped for production release, tested, and deployed.

Some of the key advantages of a well-planned delivery cadence are as follows:

• Establishes a predictable delivery cadence – scope of work and time duration between deliveries
• Enables better planning and cross-functional coordination
• Manages scope creeps and last-minute new work addition
• Helps balance and plan work better
• Fine-tunes and adjusts delivery cadence that fits your organization

The sample delivery cadence calendar is planned a year in advance. Again, this is planning and a few releases may be canceled due to quarter-end or year-end maintenance activities.

The following figure shows a sample delivery cadence. Publishing this kind of schedule well in advance helps manage expectations...