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This paper explains the Visual Milestone Planning (VMP) method using an agile vocabulary to facilitate its adoption by agile practitioners as a front end for a hybrid development process. VMP is a visual and collaborative planning approach which promotes a shared understanding of the work approach and commitment through the direct manipulation by team members of the reified planning constructs involved in the development of the plan. Once the product backlog has been established and relevant milestones identified, a novel construct called the milestone planning matrix is used to document the allocation of product backlog items to milestones. The milestones due dates are later determined by grouping sticky notes representing the work to be performed into timeboxes called work packages and accommodating them on a resource and time scaled scheduling canvas very much as it would be done in a Tetris game.
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Although it is possible to do this using digital tools, it is recommended at least initially to do it this way because VMP promotes involvement and commitment, through the reification of the planning constructs: work packages, milestones and schedules employed in the planning process and their direct manipulation by the team members who collectively create the plan.
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Miranda, E. (2023). Visual Milestone Planning in a Hybrid Development Context. In: Fernandes, J.M., Travassos, G.H., Lenarduzzi, V., Li, X. (eds) Quality of Information and Communications Technology. QUATIC 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1871. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43703-8_5
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