Four ways to do Collaborative Estimation

Estimation as a knowledge-building effort.

With traditional project management, many estimates and predictions
rely on domain experts’ individual assessments of cost, time and
resources. However, the movement towards agile thinking, with
frameworks such as Scrum, has carried the argument that many
projects and specifically product development often include complexity
to a degree that renders expert predictions insufficient.

If a situation is truly complex, it requires the voices and engagement of
many to create the most reliable estimates. Most people's guesses and
opinions - even experienced-based ones - are subject to moods,
cognitive biases and social dynamics. By relying on more than one
individual to produce estimates - albeit still people with cognitive biases
- the noise and arbitrariness is significantly reduced.

This webinar makes the case for and describes ways of doing
Collaborative Estimation.

Collaborative Estimation presupposes that we really are in
complex space much of the time. The future is harder to guess
than we think, and the discussion around an estimate often carries
as much information as the estimate itself.

The meetup will include a practical business value estimation exercise.

We look forward to seeing you there!