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 tutorial, we'll examine why traditional plans fail, while discovering 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 techniques to create a plan that dramatically improves the project’s chances of on-time completion. Using velocity to track progress against the plan will also be discussed. This tutorial will be equally suited for managers, programmers, testers or anyone involved in estimating or planning a project.


	File size	4.0 MB
	File type	pdf
	Presentation date	September 11, 2006
	Presented at	Software Development Best Practices
	Duration	half day
	Tags	2006 estimating planning
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