Delivering Value to Stakeholders
The main aim of the release plan is within the structuring of the delivery of value to the stakeholders. A scrum team seeks to deliver the most valuable features to the stakeholders first, and continue to develop the highest value requirements in every subsequent sprint. The release plan allows the scrum team to map out where the value comes from, and to schedule when it should be finished.
The Product Owner is in individual who determines how much value each of the requirements has, and sets the priority of the tasks in the release plan. The Development Team have a better understanding of how large and complex each of these requirements are, and can estimate the required effort for the requirements. Both of these pieces of information are important for scheduling items on the release plan.
For each requirement, the value and time required must be considered to maximize value for stakeholders. Given two user stories of the same value, the easier story will take less time to complete, and allows more time to finish additional features in the same sprint. Therefore, equal value with easier development will come earlier in the release plan. On the other hand, between two requests of the same difficulty or time, the more valuable requirement should be included first. The more valuable requirement gives more total value to the stakeholders within the same time frame. Only developers are properly equipped to decide the difficulty and size of each task.
Recommended Further Reading
The following materials may assist you in order to get the most out of this course: