# Work through a release plan
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/release-share/releases/work-a-release-plan

Tick off milestones and tasks with your team, share the plan with outside contacts and look back once it's out.
## Move the plan along [#move-the-plan-along]

A new plan starts as a draft. Set it to active while you work it, completed when the launch is done, or archived to shelve it.

## Milestones and tasks [#milestones-and-tasks]

Milestones group the tasks for a release. Each card shows its status, title, due date and tasks; open one to add a due date, budget, assignees, points or a description.

* Tick tasks off as you finish them. Progress shows across the team.
* Type @ in a task to mention anyone who can work on the track: its collaborators, your team and your organisation's members.
* A task can link to where it gets done, in Aden or on another site. Add one from the task's link icon.
* Some tasks tick themselves: making a campaign or a post for the track, or submitting it to a label, closes the matching task. Their checkbox is dashed until then.

Each promotion milestone works on one pillar: awareness (getting heard), conversion (getting the click) or fans (keeping listeners). Change it from the chip beside the due date.

## See what's next [#see-whats-next]

The track's sidebar ends with **Up next**: the plan's progress, its next three open tasks and a button for the next linked one. A track marked ready with no plan shows **Plan the release** there instead.

## Share the plan [#share-the-plan]

Send a label or manager a read only link to the plan. They see the milestones and their status without an Aden account.

## Export the plan [#export-the-plan]

To send the plan to a label, a manager or a partner as a file, open the plan's **…** menu and choose **Export**:

* **PDF**: the milestones by date with their tasks, deadlines and budgets, ready to attach to an email.
* **CSV** or **Excel**: one row per task, to open in a spreadsheet.

You can also press ⌘K on the plan and type "export".

## Delete a plan [#delete-a-plan]

Delete it from the plans list or the plan's header. If it has milestones and tasks, choose whether to remove them too with **Also delete all linked data**, or keep them on the track.

## Look back after the release [#look-back-after-the-release]

Once the track is out, leave a release retrospective: a rating out of five, what went well, what didn't, and what to do differently. The whole team can read it. One click saves the lessons as a team skill, so the assistant uses them the next time it drafts a plan.

## Related [#related]

* [Plan posts and content ideas](/docs/help/release-share/releases/posts-and-ideas)
* [Tasks](/docs/help/work-together/goals/tasks)