Chapter 8Build a Release Schedule
In the previous chapter, you set the release’s life cycle. Now it’s time to plan how to make the release a reality. The release schedule is the most important document you’ll produce as a program manager. It represents the project’s plan of record—the agreed-upon listing of who will do what and when they’ll do it. Your community will rely on it to know what’s coming up and use it to measure progress.
Even if it’s obvious to you that you need to have a schedule, it’s still worth examining the different reasons. How you build, track, and modify your schedule will vary with the relative importance of each reason. If you think you don’t need a schedule, you may be right. Still, you may want a “schedule” that doesn’t ...
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