March 17, 2010 6:30 PM - 14 attended
Team Estimation - Agile Managers - March - San Mateo
6:30-7:00 pm
The pizza's on us!
7:00-7:45
Team Estimation Game
I've helped several teams adopt the practice of planning poker. It's a good and useful practice, but it’s not beginner-friendly. The problem is that planning poker is a lot about numbers: “Is this feature a '5' an '8' or maybe a ‘13’?” New teams have no reference for what these values mean, and it leads to confusion.
The Team Estimation Game offers an interactive way for teams to quickly estimate user stories, without getting bogged down by numbers. It's a simple process that participants will be able to take back to their teams and use right away. What's more, it facilitates knowledge sharing and it's fun.
7:45-9:00
Group Discussion
Come prepared to share advice and insights with your peers. Have a thorny problem? Bring it!
9:00
Raffle
We''ll be giving away a Jet Brains license, and a seat in an upcoming Agile Learning Labs workshop.
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Peter BloomExcellent (and fun) Team Estimation Game exercise by Steve Bockman and Chris Sims (a better method than Story Point Poker, I think). Good discussion of real-world story estimation issues. Learned what a Durian was!
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James DowneyThanks to Steve Bockman for leading a great session on team estimation. I learned much more by being able to participate in the activity than I would have by just listening. Really enjoyed it.
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Edward Ebertit was an excellent meeting, lots of good discussion. the presentation was short, the exercise was helpful.
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