Succeeding with Agile

Hold a Release Kickoff Meeting

Another technique for proactively managing dependencies is to bring everyone together for a release kickoff meeting. An ideal time for doing so is the start of a new project or release cycle. A kickoff meeting can mitigate one of the biggest risks on a large project: that the different teams or individuals will start pulling in wrong or different directions.

Prior to a release kickoff meeting, each two-pizza team and its product owner has created a rough plan of what will be delivered over a reasonably foreseeable period, typically around three months. At the release kickoff, these plans are shared with everyone involved in the project. Normally, the product owners for each team take turns sharing what their teams ...