Release Plan

After user stories have been written

you can use a release planning meeting to
create a release plan. The release plan
specifies which user stories are going to be
implemented for each system release and
dates for those releases. This gives a set of
user stories for customers to choose from
during the iteration planning meeting to be
implemented during the next iteration. These When the project velocity changes
selected stories are then translated into dramatically for a couple iterations or in any
individual programming tasks to be case after several iterations go ahead and
implemented during the iteration to complete schedule a release planning meeting with your
the stories. customers and create a new release plan.
Stories are also translated into The release plan used to be called the
acceptance tests during the iteration. These commitment schedule. The name was changed
acceptance tests are run during this iteration, to more accurately describe its purpose and
and subsequent iterations to verify when the be more consistent with iteration plan.
stories are finished correctly and continue to
work correctly.

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