Release Planning

Shaping what ships together in each release — the outcome each release moves, where the cut lines fall and why, and the order the releases go in. The work runs from an honest inventory of what is ready, through a cut that leaves every release usable on its own, to a Release Plan that is re-cut in the open as reality moves, with every change dated and explained.

Its purpose is to make the cut a deliberate trade rather than a wish list. A release grouped by component ships nothing a customer can use, and a quiet re-cut leaves stakeholders discovering by accident that their item slipped.