Retrospective
The release schedule doesn’t have to be an unbreakable commitment—it’s more of a plan that you make together. Like the release itself, it’s a collaborative process. You need input from the teams in your project. Your job as the program manager isn’t to dictate the schedule. Instead, you’re the scheduling expert who helps the rest of the community understand where their work fits in. You have to take the broad view of the project and help strike the right balance when there are competing interests.
Now that you have your release schedule planned out, it’s time to figure out what will go into the release. The next chapter builds on some of the deadlines you defined in the schedule to put together a feature-planning process.
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