From the course: Scrum: The Basics
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Create a roadmap and release plan
- You've done all this work preparing your themes, features, and backlog. You also know how long your Sprints are. Now it's time to estimate when things will be worked on. Scrum has tools for this as well. We use two different mechanisms for this: the roadmap and the release plan. The roadmap is very high-level, and is intended to apply your themes over time. This way, everyone has a general sense of what the focus will be in a given timeframe. Using our example from earlier, creating a mobile lunch ordering app, we identified themes of profile, order, payment, and delivery. Now we need to decide the best order to work on these themes. While payment may be the most important to our business partners, from a dependency perspective it probably makes more sense to prioritize the profile and ordering themes first. Like everything else in Scrum, this is a guideline, not a rule. But following this idea, here's what the…
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