Tag: agile estimating
Estimating a backlog of 100 items in 1 hour? Challenge accepted.
The situation The agile team was working in a still mostly project-based environment. Over the period of several months, they had created backlog items, both with nice business value and also items to get rid of some technical debt they had piled up, getting to a situation where they had about 125 backlog items, of which only a dozen were estimated and refined, ready for...
How to fix Scrum teams that are terrible at estimating and forecasting?
First of all, we should ask ourselves: "Why do we estimate?". In a lot of cases it's because of the wrong reasons, but let us assume we are in a context where estimates are needed. What would that context look like? A Large-Scale setting where a Rolling Wave Plan is used by other parts in the organization (sales, marketing, heck even customers), increasing the complexity IT teams are...
Popcorn time: 3 must-see videos on agile estimating!
You’re still struggling with estimations or you think you’ve completely mastered it? I highly recommend the following 3 videos. Get some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the show! Video 1: Agile estimating Summary: the basics on agile estimating. Tagline: estimate size, derive duration Star: Mike Cohn Duration: 58:21 Event: Norwegian Developers Conference, 6 June 2012 Topics covered: ideal time story points planning poker. Video 2:...