Research Plan - Planning Product Releases in Global Multi-team Agile Development Projects

Release planning is a challenging part of market-driven product development and a success factor in agile software development projects. Release planning in an environment where multiple globally distributed teams are developing the same product requires careful coordination of responsibilities and technical dependencies. Existing release planning research has concentrated on mathematical model-based big upfront planning, which conflicts with agile methods. The goals of this research are to describe the release planning state-of-art in scientific literature and in real globally distributed agile software development projects, and to build a model for efficient release planning in globally distributed agile software development projects.