Facilitated by Ola. M.

Shipping one feature is hard. Shipping ten features across three teams on time is an art form.

Welcome to Release Planning & Dependencies:

Release planning is where strategy meets reality. This session teaches you how to plan across multiple sprints, coordinate across teams, surface dependencies before they become blockers, and communicate release readiness to stakeholders — all without losing your mind.

What We’ll Cover:

• What release planning is and how it differs from sprint planning
• The release planning process: from product vision to release goal to sprint breakdown
• Dependency mapping: identifying technical, team, and external dependencies
• Tools for visualizing dependencies: dependency boards, risk boards, and program boards
• Managing dependencies in a single-team environment vs. at scale
• How to negotiate scope, dates, and quality trade-offs with stakeholders (the Iron Triangle)
• Release readiness: what does “ready to ship” really mean?
• Communication plans for internal teams and external stakeholders
• What to do when a dependency blocks your release
• Post-release: how to close out a release and capture lessons learned

Live Workshop:

Students will work through a release planning exercise, identify dependencies in a sample backlog, and build a dependency board as a group.

Who Should Attend:

• Product Owners managing multi-sprint roadmaps
• Scrum Masters coordinating across multiple teams
• Practitioners in scaled or enterprise environments where cross-team coordination is a daily reality

Benefits of Attending This Session:

Participants will leave with a release planning template, a dependency tracking approach they can implement immediately, and the skills to lead release conversations with both technical teams and business stakeholders.