Agile Estimation and Planning
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
Anyone who needs to participate in an Agile project with special emphasis on Scrum practitioners
Class Size Limit: 16 (Minimum 0)
Course Overview
Improve on the fundamentals learned in the Beyond Scrum class by learning how to accelerate the planning and estimating process and improve accuracy. We will begin by examining the common pitfalls in planning and estimating processes so that new ideas have a baseline to be compared against.
We will discuss the motivations and challenges of story and task breakdown. Participants will learn an arsenal of techniques for breaking work into manageable chunks that fit neatly into iterations and days. We will discuss the trade offs and practicalities of estimating in Story Points vs Ideal Days and how to make the appropriate decision for your project. Product owners will gain additional insight into Release planning and Backlog Management techniques. We will show simple but powerful ways to prioritize backlog items by Financial impact, Thematic organization and Desirability.
Agenda
Day 1
- Card Box Group Exercise
- Introduction
- Estimation and Planning Challenges
- Why is planning so hard?
- Why do we plan?
- Why Big Up-Front Planning Fails
- Agile Review
- Agile Planning
- Roles in Agile Software Planning
- User Stories
- Workshop: User Story
- Estimation: Estimate Size, Determine Velocity
- Story Points versus Ideal Days
- How We Estimate
- Workshop: Estimation in Story Points
Day 2
- Prioritizing the Backlog
- Workshop: User Story Prioritization
- Release Planning
- Plan Buffers and Uncertainties
- Workshop: Release Planning
- Iteration Planning
- Estimating Velocity
- Workshop: Iteration Planning
Day 3
- Daily Planning
- Re-Estimating
- Tracking and Monitoring
- Workshop: Scrum Accelerator
- Scaling Planning and Estimating to Multiple Teams
- Why Agile Planning Works
- The Use of Tools in Agile Planning
- Workshop: Ticket to Ride Again
- Agile Planning and Acceptance Testing
- Agile Planning Smells
Cost:
$1,200 per attendee.