Through the usage of ReleasePlanner™, Trema Laboratories Inc. has received a complementary solution and the skills to manage the top challenges in release planning process by providing us with a set of alternative solutions considering all constraints and dependencies between requirements, bringing in the opinion of all the stakeholders through the web for planning and also providing us with a powerful methodology to reflect the changing requirements in our project plans. The time to generate release plans and to alter release plans because of changing requirements was drastically reduced to clicks of buttons from a process that took several days.

Time saving performing planning pulling together the roadmap and generating the release plans takes 60% of a full time job for a product manager and a release manager. ReleasePlanner™ provides a quick overview of requirements and the generation of alternative release plan becomes trivial through the push of a button on the keyboard. It is estimated through the case study that a saving of about 50% of the time spent carrying out the initial plan is achieved.

Quick and improved re-planning Changes in requirements always need to revise the plan to accommodate the change. This process consumes about 30% of a release manager's job including the time of other stakeholders involved in the release. It is estimated that stakeholders spend on average three hours a week for re-planning during the release. The findings in the case study indicate that a time saving of 75% is achievable through the use of ReleasePlanner™.

Joseph Momoh
Project Manager
Trema Laboratories Inc.