The goal of this release template is to provide a list of features, team activities, observations, defects, environmental issues, and code modules to deploy for a particular software release. It includes sections for the release objective, content, team activity log, identified defects and their statuses, any environmental problems, and code packages to deploy along with the branch name. The template is used to plan and track progress of a software release from feature approval through deployment.

1. Release Template
Objective
The goal of this release is ___
Content
List of features and feature owners for this release
Feature Approver Contributors Informed Stakeholders Status
What? Who Who Who NOT STARTED
NOT STARTED
NOT STARTED
Team Activity
List all work performed on this release (install in the environment, testing, opened defect,
closed defect...). This should be a work log of what we've done to get this out the door.
Date Team Activity Comments and Results

2. Observations and Defects
Each observation or defect should have its own row. Please keep these rows updated as the
item is identified, analyzed, fixed, and tested.
Rally
ID
Description (copy
from Rally)
Environment
State
(New,
Dev, QA,
Closed,
Rejected,
Blocked)
Test-
cases
Blocked
The
owner
(who is
actively
working
on this)
Reporter
(who
found it,
who will
sign off)
Feature
Path to
green
(Plan to
resolve)
Comments
and Notes
NOT
STARTED
NOT
STARTED
Environmental Issues
Any issues with environments that have impacted
Identifier
Which
environment
Description of
Issue
Team
responsible
POC of the
responsible
team
Date of
Resolution

3. Code Module/Packages to deploy and Branch name
Code Module Branch name