Estimating Workshop
Get Story Points Right, With Your Own Backlog
A practical workshop where your teams learn how to estimate effectively, then practice by estimating their actual product backlog items.
- Build a shared understanding of what story points really mean.
- Estimate real items from your backlog, not abstract examples.
- Leave with estimates you can trust as a baseline for future planning.
What You'll Be Able to Do
Understand the relationship between story points and time.
Apply the four factors that determine any estimate.
Use Planning Poker® and Affinity Estimation to build team consensus.
Why Take an Estimating Workshop?
Accurate estimates help product owners prioritize and give teams confidence in their delivery plans. But story points are often misunderstood leading to unreliable results.
In this workshop, we start with a short session to address your team’s challenges, whether it’s baselining, triangulating, or misconceptions about story points. Then we spend most of the time estimating your actual backlog items.
By the end, your teams will know how to estimate consistently and will leave with a baseline set of estimates they can use right away.
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Our Instructor
Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.
Mike Cohn
With 20+ years of agile training experience, Mike has honed a talent for explaining agile concepts with clear illustrations and real-life examples. Participants enjoy his passion for teaching the agile methodologies in a relatable and digestible way.
Read more...Mike is CEO of Mountain Goat Software, and one of the industry’s most well-respected Certified Scrum Trainers. He is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. He is a co-founder and former board member of the Scrum Alliance, and a co-founder of the non-profit Agile Alliance, home of the Agile Manifesto.
Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, A-CSM, CSP-SM, CSP-PO
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- Answer your training questions and discuss any custom needs.
- Recommend the best agile training path for your teams and goals.
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