This slide gives an excellent overview of Agile Planning and Estimation. Will be really helpful, if presented to a Scrum/Agile Team to understand activities related to Release Planning, Sprint Planning and Estimation

1. 2p ÷ 0.5e = 4x
simply said:
double productivity in half effort
That’s Agile..

2. Topic: Agile Planning and Estimation
Agenda:
 Importance of Planning and Planning Levels
 Bird’s Eye view of The Agile Lifecycle and Agile Team
 Agile Planning and Estimating Principles
 Levels of Agile Requirements, Estimating and Sizing Units
 Estimation Methods and How to Size points
 Complexity Bucket method
 Sample and Examples

3. Agile Planning
“When preparing for battle, I
find that Plans are useless, but
planning is indispensable”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

4. 6 Planning Levels
The Team is Involved in Planning Steps 4,5,6

5. The Agile Lifecycle

6. AgileTeam

7. Agile Planning & Estimating Principles

8. Level of Agile Requirements

9. Estimating
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
—John Maynard Keynes
Relative vs Absolute Estimating
 Relative Estimating
 focuses on size and complexity - this happens at the story level
 Absolute Estimating
 focuses on ideal time - this happens at the task level

10. Sizing Units
 Story Points
 A measure of the relative size and complexity of the story
 How much effort and how hard is this story compared to
others on our backlog ?
 Avoids the need (and waste) behind precise estimates
 Ideal Time
How long will it take if
 It’s all you work on
 No one interrupts you
 And everything you need is available

11. The ‘Right Method’ for the ‘Right Time’

12. How to Size Points ?

13. Estimating Story Points using Complexity Buckets (Elatta Method)

14. Sample of User Story Estimation table
 Work Categorization
 Categorization can be based on specific needs e.g. Design, Development, Testing, Documentation
or it could be User Interface, Business Logic, Database, Integration, Testing etc.
 Keep the Categorization limited to 3 or 4 categories max for speedy calculation
 For each category use scale of Light L=1, Medium M=2, High H=3, Complex C=4
 Bucket Rounding is to round it to the nearest Fibonacci Bucket number (shown in previous slide)
Story ID Summary
Work Categorization Total
d
=a+b+c
Bucket
Rounding
e
Story
Points
=d+e
Design
a
Development
b
Testing
c
1 Story Xyz L => 1 M => 2 L => 1 4 -1 3
2 Story Abc (has multiple
external integrations)
L => 2 M => 2 L => 3 7 +1 8
3 Story Def (minor/cosmetic
change)
0 M => 1 L => 1 2 0 2

15. Sample Release Planning Wall

16. Example Backlog

17. References
 Mike Cohn’s video on Agile Estimating (available on youtube)
 Sally Elatta’s video on Agile Estimating and Planning (available on youtube)

18. Let’s get started..
Manish Agrawal
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