A Guide to Roadmaps and Release Plans for Software Product Teams

Let’s talk about two very important artifacts that play a pivotal role within our product development teams: roadmaps and release plans.
Let’s talk about two very important artifacts that play a pivotal role within our product development teams: roadmaps and release plans.
The culture of the software development world has sometimes valued technical know-how above all else. Developers may see cultivating the “soft” skills of social interaction, teamwork, and communication as a distraction from the work of writing beautiful code. In reality, we need these skills in order to do our jobs properly.
While it may seem odd to propose “acceptance criteria for acceptance criteria” as a way to specifically address the quality of AC requirements, that’s precisely what we’re doing here. We believe that creating a checklist of quantitative measures against which each requirement statement (acceptance criteria) can be judged – and then measuring the requirement’s quality … Continued