The document outlines a process with 6 stages: 1. Strategic themes are defined by sponsors and refined into a portfolio of large initiatives. 2. The portfolio items are then refined into Epics which describe business goals in stories. 3. Epics are broken down into individual stories which are the smallest deliverables. 4. Product owners work with release management to group stories into features for scheduled releases. 5. Stories are developed through sprints and continuously integrated into a build server. 6. Release management deploys builds containing features to production potentially through a staging environment first.

1. CI Server
Continuous Integration
(Incremental Builds)
Epics Refine
Create
Features
Create
Releases
Done
C
Story Development
Owned by Product Owners
Stories Consolidate
Group
Features
Create
Releases
Done
Release Development
Owned by Release Management
E
Portfolio
Items
Define Decompose
Create
Epics
Done
Epic Development (Vision/Roadmap)
Owned by Product Management
B
New
Ideas
Validate
Research
&
Develop
Create
Portfolio
Items
Done
Strategic Themes
Owned by Sponsors or Portfolio Managers
A
Stories To Do Doing Done
D
Sprints
The Scrum Team
High level strategy and vision is refined into a portfolio of big ticket
items to deliver.
The big ticket items are refined into Epics. Large scale stories that describe
in business language what is desired to achieve the strategic vision.
Epics are refined and broken down into their smallest valuable size (Stories).
Often called Minimal Viable Product, or Minimum Marketable Feature.
Release Management works in parallel with the Product Owners developing the stories to
decide what features (a combination of stories) to release at each planned release cycle.
Stories are developed by the Scrum Team, and then continuously integrated
into the ‘build’ server.
On a schedule determined by Release Management the builds (collections of features
delivered by building the stories) are then released into production. They may go
though regression testing in a staging environment first.
Production
A
B
C
D
D
E
Define Strategy Create Roadmap Refine Scope
Develop Product Deploy Product
An Idea is Born(Kanban Lifecycle Management)