Author here. Thanks for reading! Considering the release announcement as part of sprint planning doesn't mean eliminating maintenance work. The release announc

Author here. Thanks for reading! Considering the release announcement as part of sprint planning doesn't mean eliminating maintenance work. The release announcement is just the top N user-impacting changes in the release, so not every bit of dev work requires justification to the end-user. The lesson I learned was that when I have a maintenance-heavy release, I needed to ensure that we have at least some work that's user-facing that we can present to users in the release announcement.