Chapter 1
Overview and Introduction
1.1 What is Release Planning and why do we Care?
Writing a book is not an easy task, nor is its reading. There should be a number of questions clarified to the reader up-front before entering the endeavor of studying a book like this. This overview and introduction chapter is devoted to giving an answer to a number of questions:
What is product release planning?
Why writing a book about this topic?
What is the current status of release planning?
What is the book’s structure?
What are the underlying assumptions behind writing this book?
Who are the different types of reader supposed to read the book?
What is the expected benefit from reading the book?
Size and complexity of today’s product is continuously ...
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