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Agile estimation is the process of approximating the effort required to deliver a product or feature When teams estimate work items at the product backlog level, estimates are relative. These relative estimates are expressed with an abstract measure like story points or ideal days.

Planning Poker® is a consensus-based estimating technique. Agile teams around the world use Planning Poker to estimate their product backlogs. Planning Poker can be used with story points, ideal days, or any other estimating unit.

Scrum is an agile approach to product development, especially software development, that is applicable to any project with aggressive deadlines, complex requirements and a degree of uniqueness.

…talking about them. Every agile user story includes a written sentence or two to describe a product backlog item from a user perspective. And more importantly, each user story sparks future conversations about the functionality the user story represents. Read on to discover more about user stories and the user…

…every tester on an agile project—and since agile projects largely try to do away with specific roles, everyone tests, making this a great book for almost anyone on an agile team. The book starts by laying groundwork by defining what agile testing is and describing ten principles for doing it.…

…divide between developers following agile developers and developers taking what the authors call a “plan–driven” approach. The book does an excellent job of summarizing many agile methods. The main premise of the book is that agile and plan–driven methods each have a “home ground” for which they are the appropriate…

Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders

__Succeeding with Agile__ is not an introductory book on Scrum. Read it after you’ve studied the Scrum overview pages on this site or after you’ve taken a Certified ScrumMaster class. This book provides the advice you will need to initiate or lead the transition to Scrum, plus all the advice…

More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

The early agile literature was adamant about two things: stick with small teams and put everyone in one room. However, in the years since the Agile Manifesto, the increasing popularity of agile and the dramatic improvements it brings has pushed it onto larger and larger projects. Additionally, having an entire…

…the author learned about Agile in the late 1990s: My journey with Agile began in the late 1990s when I sat through a presentation on a new methodology known as the Rational Unified Process… During this presentation, the facilitator mentioned that he had been working with teams that worked with…

…gains that the best agile teams have shown us are possible. Partial, half-hearted agile implementations are all too common. Yet as you have experienced yourself, most who begin the journey to embrace agile are better than they were. What you need is a way to move beyond initial gains to…

Agile approaches to software development promise many advantages: shorter schedules, more productive teams, products that better meet customer expectations, higher quality, and more. Many agile teams fall short of these goals. Companies are looking to identify and steer clear of some of the most common pitfalls so that their business…

…the passing of the agile software development season. Long disparaged and with few vocal proponents, the waterfall method appears poised to make a comeback. The recent announcement of the Waterfall 2006 conference (www.waterfall2006.com) may foreshadow the end of agile, especially given the number of leading agile advocates slated to participate…