An Introduction to Agile Estimating and Planning

Planning is important even for projects using agile processes such as XP, Scrum, or Feature-Driven Development. Unfortunately, we’ve all seen so many worthless plans that we’d like to throw them away altogether. The good news is that it is possible to create a project plan that looks forward six to nine months that can be accurate and useful.

In this class we will look at why traditional plans fail but why planning is still necessary even on agile projects. We will look at various approaches to estimating including unit-less points and ideal time. The class will describe four techniques for deriving estimates as well as when and how to re-estimate. We will look at how to use Critical Chain techniques to create a plan that dramatically improves the project’s chances of on-time completion. Also discussed will be using velocity to track progress against the plan.

This class will be equally suited for managers, programmers, testers, or anyone involved in estimating or planning a project.


	File size	0.3 MB
	File type	pdf
	Presentation date	March 17, 2004
	Presented at	Software Development West
	Duration	90 minutes
	Tags	2004 estimating planning
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