ART Release Planning Meetings require coordination among which roles?

• A. Other Scrum Masters, the System Team, and Shared Resources
• B. Only the Product Owner and Scrum Master
• C. Developers and QA leads
• D. Executives and portfolio managers

Answer: (A)

Release Planning on an Agile Release Train hinges on cross-team coordination to align multiple teams around the same objectives for the upcoming Program Increment. People who work across teams are essential for this: other Scrum Masters coordinate dependencies and timing across teams, the System Team handles integration, environment readiness, and shared testing capabilities, and Shared Resources provide specialized skills or services that multiple teams rely on during the planning and execution of the PI. This combination ensures dependencies are surfaced, integration is feasible, and the plan reflects real capacity and delivery needs.

The other options focus too narrowly on within-team roles or on high-level stakeholders, and they don’t capture the practical cross-team coordination required for ART release planning.