Breakthrough
To help teams get to release often thinking, Scott and I suggest that you create the bulk of your backlog of iteration-sized user stories at the beginning of a release. We know that the typical recommendation is to write stories at the beginning of the iteration in which the team plans to work on them, but there are some benefits that you may not be aware of in creating the bulk of your user stories at the outset of the release.
The process starts with an agreement on the epic stories. Make sure your epic stories characterize and clearly prioritize the vision for the release so that the team knows what to focus on as well as what not to focus on as they make decisions each day. Make the initial pass at creating the epics the responsibility ...
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