Hi Raphael.
Thank you for your question. It may be a bit too long to reply in full here, though I'll try.
First, I'd like to refer you to our documentation page relating to
timeboxes. I would recommend you go over this page as well as the bottom links for each time box.
To answer your question:
Rally offers 3 timeboxes: Milestones, Releases and Iterations. They are not hierarchical, there isn't an 'inclusion' association between them. So, releases are not part of milestones and milestones are not part of releases. These timexboxes serve different purposes and don't have to align. If they align it will usually be by their date range and/or by project association.
The smaller timeboxes are releases and iterations. Both of them "belong" to a project, that means you associate them with only one project (or team), you also set their start and end dates.
A milestone is a larger timebox which is usually set by the business. It represents a business goal and aligns multiple projects (or teams).
From a timeline perspective a milestone is a much larger time range and there will usually be a number of releases that go by in that same time range. Still, there is no inclusion or association between them and they don't have to align by their dates (despite that it would make sense they will).
In your question you're asking if there's an intuitive way to make a set of milestones a release. As you see - not only there isn't but if anything it is the other way around where a number of releases will make a milestone. The smallest timebox is Iteration and though it is not included in a release, you can associate a work item (such as user story or defect) to both an iteration and a release.
Please let us know if that helped and if further questions.
Thanks,
Sagi
Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2021 04:57 PM
From: Raphael Nash
Subject: Milestones and Releases
I have read the documentation on Milestones and Release.
I am have trouble visualizing how Milestones and releases are releated. In my mind I think that a release should consist of a bunch of milestones. I am not sure why I can not add Milestones as artifacts to a release.
I am also not sure why Test Cases are associated to Milestones, but not releases in the out of the box rally.
Can someone please enlighten me.
Is there an intuitive way to make a set of milestones a release?
Thanks!