User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Chapter 20. The Release Plan

The following steps are necessary in order to create the release plan:

1. Select an iteration length.

2. Estimate the velocity.

3. Prioritize the stories.

4. Allocate stories to the one or more iterations.

Because the new website features need to be available in four weeks, the team decides to use two-week iterations. This will give them the opportunity to run two iterations before the deadline. They’ll prioritize the highest priority features into the first iteration to make sure those are completed. After the first iteration they will be able to assess their velocity and decide how much work they can bring into the second iteration.

Estimating Velocity

Maria and Rafe are will be the programmers on the project. ...