Release Plan Report

Description

The Release Plan report shows the Product Backlog sorted by priority and overlaid with which sprint the items are forecasted to be delivered based on a given velocity. Only backlog items that have an effort, priority, and are in a valid state are included. Optionally you can specify a deadline which will appear before the Sprint it would fall during so you can see what items are forecasted to be completed by that date.

Deployment

Follow the instructions in Documentation > Report Installation to install this report in a team project’s SQL Server Reporting Services site.  This report uses the reporting site path to determine the current team project information.  This report must be installed under each team project that will use it. You must mark the Microsoft.VSTS.Common.BacklogPriority field as reportable (Dimension) for the MS Scrum 1.0 version of this report to work properly..

Usage

The Release Plan report takes multiple parameters in order to create the overlay of forecasted Sprints on top of your Product Backlog.

Parameters

Interpretation

The report is used to forecast when items on your Product Backlog will be delivered based on your velocity and sprint length. When using this report remember these best practices:

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