Estimating - How Long Is a Piece Of String?

For May's talk we have my friend and fellow Agile Coach Sean Moir who's going to run a workshop on Lean Estimation. We're at Deepspaceworks so Su will be providing lovely tea and biscuits at half term in return for your lovely £3 donations.

Here's what Sean says about the workshop:

"In Lean terms, Estimating can be considered as waste since it doesn't directly contribute to product. When we have enough data, we can use Probablistic Planning techniques, but what about before we have a large set of data? What if our broad brush Estimates could be considered good enough? What if we could forecast story duration based on previous performance? What if we could answer almost every conceivable delivery forecast question to a known degree of certainty? This session aims to equip you with a simple technique to answer all of these questions using a small amount of data. In Software Development, as with many other fields, we can gain insight from forecasting."

Sean does a bit of Coaching, ScrumMastering and a bit of Deving. He provides guidance and support for the uptake of Agile and Lean Principles, Processes and Practices within Software Project Management and Development. He can help to show 'How' as well as 'What?' and 'Why?' He is an active member in various Scrum, Agile and Programming MeetUp groups. Founder and Organiser of Swindon Agile Practitioners MeetUp group. When his schedule allows, he can be found at Code Club at his daughter's school.