Monthly Archives: November 2019

Calculating The Release Payload (8) – which brings us back to value…

November 19, 2019 · by · in Agile Critical Path, Agile Principles, Backlog Management, Estimation · Leave a comment

In the previous blog posts I’ve been discussing how we can do simple calculations to determine how confident we can be in delivering a release payload. Let’s assume that we’ve done these calculations and maybe we’ve adjusted them based on the fact that our last sprint will be a hardening sprint and the result of […]

Calculating The Release Payload (7) – Some more complications…

November 12, 2019 · by · in Backlog Management, Estimation · Leave a comment

Back in 2016 I wrote a post entitled “Should all iterations be treated the same?” This, and the several posts after this, attempt to describe how iterations within a release may have a specific purpose, for example we may have a Hardening Sprint with the aim of addressing defects found during the final testing before the […]

Calculating The Release Payload (6) – Achieving a balanced release payload

November 5, 2019 · by · in Agile Critical Path, Estimation · 5 Comments

So, hopefully we agree that understanding team workload is an important aspect of release planning and also in the general concept of having a confidence level associated with delivering a release payload. Let’s take these ideas and try to portray them diagrammatically as a balanced release payload. We can use a RAG status as follows […]