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DEFINITION - In agile software development, a release plan is an evolving flowchart that describes which features will be delivered in upcoming releases. Each story in a release plan has a rough size estimate associated with it.

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LAST UPDATED: 31 Mar 2008

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- Kelly Waters posted about release planning on her blog, "All About Agile."





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