We continuously work to improve and refine Learn365 to ensure we always offer you a learning environment that meets the needs of the modern workplace. In this article, we describe the Learn365 release cycle and development process methodology.
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Release cycle
Approximately every fourth week, we will release a new major version of the Learn365 product that will introduce new features and capabilities, enhancements, and fixes. If critical bugs are identified between major releases, we'll deliver hotfixes between major releases.
Learn365 is a pure Software as a Service (SaaS) product so releases will be automatically rolled out to ensure organizations always experience the most up-to-date learning environment.
Learn365 is developed using Scrum agile delivery methodology, where our development process is organized in cycles. To ensure a stable development and performance of the product, each cycle includes a series of recurring events, such as refinement, prioritization, scoping, reviewing, and testing.
For information about how customers can prepare for product changes before they are rolled out to their environment, see this article.
Development team composition
Five Scrum teams work in parallel sprints to deliver items in the sprint backlog.
Each of our cross-functional Scrum teams has all the competencies needed to deliver these items, from description of the goal and success criteria, to release into production. Together, the teams are responsible for breaking down features into individual work items.
Each team consists of:
- one Product manager. The Product manager fulfills the role of the Product owner for the Scrum team.
- one Scrum master.
- Full-stack engineers.
- Front-end engineers.
- QA engineers.
Product managers
Product managers fulfill the role of the Product owner for Scrum teams and prioritize the list of requirements for future product development and work closely with our UX designers, visual designers, and Scrum teams to ensure Learn365 continues to meet our customers' needs.
Scrum masters
Scrum masters coordinate and facilitate process improvements inside the team to improve collaboration and efficiency, and facilitate collaborative problem-solving and idea generation.
Full-stack engineers
Full-stack developers design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code, and maintain the code quality.
Front-end engineers
Front-end specialists are responsible for creating reusable front-end components, and generally improving the quality and maintainability of Learn365 front-end parts, including their testability and integration with Learn365 core services.
QA engineers
QA engineers are responsible for performing and improving the different stages of quality assurance practices and processes, including quality control, functional and non-functional testing (for example, verification), validation of requirements, communication and coordination, quality assurance efforts, and processes within the team and organization.
Support from other teams
Every release is supported by localization specialists, who provide internationalization and localization updates, a team of technical writers, who prepare the release notes and updated user documentation, and video specialists, who deliver product videos.