Release Planning Support in Greenhopper

Fabian Schiller

Hello,

we are using Greenhopper for development in Scrum. I did not find any support for release planning in this tool. I'd like to be able to define about 4-6 future sprints and set up prognosed Story Points for those sprints. The tool should then automatically fill those sprint containers from the backlog using the estimated story points of the stories available. Thus you could always show the customer in real time, when his features are likely to come.

Is such a feature possible, or planned?

Thanks in advance

Fabian

Jon Cotter

If you are using story points, Greenhopper gives you the ablility to set a visual indicator in your backlog of a certain number of story points (which you can configure - click on the statistics button on the Planning board)

Thats the only built in tool I know of that you can do release planning with.

My method (in case this helps) is to create 3 sub versions in the backlog that we use for planning ahead. It requires you to manually fill them (not automatic like you describe) but has the same effect.

Hope some of that can help you