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How to Do the Release Planning

The release planning involves building the release backlog. The product owner identifies the high ranking product backlog items to build the release backlog. The product owner then discusses the release backlog items with the team.

The following diagram describes how a product owner performs the release planning.

Perform these steps to plan a release:

1. Review the prerequisites.
2. Build the release backlog.
   • Select the user stories and issues for the release.
   • Define the owners for the user stories and issues.
3. Filter the product backlog by release.
4. Size the release backlog items.