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What methods for measuring progress during a release sprint are effective

Last post 04:01 pm March 23, 2018 by Simon Mayer
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09:24 am March 23, 2018

Hello All,

Scrum suggests that you split your development into a number of sprints. Each sprint being a fixed duration. At the end of each sprint you ask the client if you should release the software. If they say yes, you perform a Release Sprint, during which you do all the tasks that you woud like to do contineously, but are too expensive, such as external user testing, performance load testing and sign off, burning CDs (if relevent), writing user centered documentation and so on

In my current project we have just performend our first release sprint. We found we lost a lot of the advantages of scrum such as the burndown (as a lot of things were fixing minor tweaks or temporaraly removing security from the site so the load testing could happen), a clear goal as to how much work was to be done next etc. Basically the relase tasks were too close to firefighting to be easaly trackable via normal scrum tools.

What methods have other people used for during a release sprint, and what pitfalls did you find that should be avoided?

Thanks


04:01 pm March 23, 2018

Hi Nicole,

Where did the idea of a Release Sprint come from?

If there are separate phases needed after a Sprint in order to release the increment, can that increment really be considered releasable?

From the Scrum Guide:

The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint.


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