3.3. Release planning vehicles

It’s always best to create release plans and then communicate them to all stakeholders. A release plan is a central and important utility, and a couple of vehicles are available to express and communicate these plans.

In chapter 4, we’ll look at a tool-driven approach based on JIRA and Trac for setting up releases with milestones and plan and track contents. But that’s the second step. The first step is to set up and create a release overview that communicates the timeboxed slots, indicating when important things happen. This overview can have different implementations. One is a release calendar; another is a release screenplay.