Presented on November 10, 2008 - Agile Development Practices 2008

Planning is important for all projects, especially agile ones. Unfortunately, we’ve all seen many worthless plans and often want to throw out planning altogether. Unfortunately, too many teams today view planning as something to be avoided, and too many organizations view plans as something to hold against their development teams. Don’t give up yet! With the right type of agile planning and estimating, you can create an accurate and useful project plan that looks six to nine months in the future.

Join Mike Cohn to learn new skills that will help you create reliable plans that improve decision-making and break the cycle of poor estimates and failed expectations. Leave with a solid understanding of and experience in agile planning as you learn new approaches to estimating—unit-less points, ideal time, and more. Practice estimating with the popular Planning Poker® technique and see how these techniques work on fixed-price and fixed-scope projects. With Mike and the other participants, you’ll explore techniques that dramatically increase your project’s chances of on-time completion.