Estimation and planning is always important, even on agile projects. This course will teach you how to efficiently and effectively drive the planning and estimating process and improve accuracy.
Improve on the fundamentals learned in the Agile Foundation class by learning how to accelerate the planning and estimating process. 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 itera¬tions and days.
We will discuss the trade offs and practicalities of estimating in Story Points and other methods 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 prioritise backlog items by Financial impact, Thematic organisation and Desirability.
Topics Included
• Roadmap and Release planning
• Writing effective User Stories
• Planning Poker
• Iteration Planning
• Estimating work
• Plan Buffers and Uncertainties
• Estimating Velocity
Prerequisites: Agile Foundation or proven equivalent knowledge.
Audience: All Team Members
Duration: 1 Day
Lab to Lecture Ratio: Approximately 60%
Improve on the fundamentals learned in the Agile Foundation class by learning how to accelerate the planning and estimating process. 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 itera¬tions and days.
We will discuss the trade offs and practicalities of estimating in Story Points and other methods 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 prioritise backlog items by Financial impact, Thematic organisation and Desirability.
Topics Included
• Roadmap and Release planning
• Writing effective User Stories
• Planning Poker
• Iteration Planning
• Estimating work
• Plan Buffers and Uncertainties
• Estimating Velocity
Prerequisites: Agile Foundation or proven equivalent knowledge.
Audience: All Team Members
Duration: 1 Day
Lab to Lecture Ratio: Approximately 60%
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