This presentation contracts the more traditional ways of planning and estimating projects with Agile/Scrum practices.

1. Agile Estimating and Planning
Using Scrum
Tommy Norman
Systems Architect / Certified Scrum Master

2. Agenda
1. Introductions
2. Traditional Techniques
3. Research & Statistics
4. Scrum in 5 Minutes
5. Agile Estimation
6. Agile Planning Using Scrum
7. Q & A
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3. Introductions
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4. Tommy Norman
Systems Architect / Agile Coach,
Compuware Corporation
Certified Scrum Master/Practitioner,
Agile Alliance
MVP Team System, Microsoft
Email: tommy.norman@compuware.com
Blog: www.tommynorman.com
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5. There is no
Santa Claus.
The Easter
Bunny is dead.
Agile is not a silver bullet.

6. Traditional
Techniques
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7. Traditional “Waterfall” SDLC
Analysis Design Develop Test Deploy

8. How do we currently
plan and estimate a
traditional software
development project?
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9. Business Case
Business
Owner
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10. Business Case
Project Charter
Project
Manager
Stakeholders &
Experts
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11. Business Case Milestones
Project Charter
Project Plan
Business
Owner
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12. Business Case
Project Charter
Project Plan
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13. Business Case
10 7
days? days?
Project Charter
Project Plan Experts
Project
Manager
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14. Business Case
Project Charter
Project Plan
Project
Manager
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15. Business Case
10
days?
Project Charter
Project Plan Expert
25
Days!
Not an Expert
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16. Business Case
Project Charter
Business
Project Plan Analyst
Requirements
Users &
Experts

17. Business Case
Project Charter
Architects &
Project Plan Designers
Requirements
Architecture
& Design

18. Business Case
Project Charter
Project Plan
Requirements
Architecture
& Design

19. Does this process
work?
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20. What are the
benefits of this
process?
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21. What are the
issues with this
process?
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22. Research &
Statistics
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23. Simula Research
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24. IEEE Xplore
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25. “On average, about
70% of all IT-related
projects fail to meet
their objectives.”
-Bob Lewis (2003?)
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26. Estimation Granularity
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27. Estimation Granularity
Epic
Theme
Feature User
Story
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28. Estimation Over Time
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29. Estimating Time Boxes
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30. Expert Estimation
n hrs.
+
n hrs. 30%
Expert
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31. Magic Eight Ball

32. Scrum in 5
Minutes
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33. Roles
Scrum Master Scrum Team
Product Owner
Stakeholders &
Users

34. Artifacts
Product Vision Product Backlog Release Plan
Sprint
Sprint Backlog Burndown Impediment List

35. Process
Sprint
Sprint
Review Product
Project
Initiation Increment
Sprint
Planning
Sprint
Retrospective

36. Agile
Estimating
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37. Product
Backlog

39. User
Stories As a (role) I want
(something) so that
(benefit).

40. “As a registered
user I want to be
able to search the
online catalog so
that I can find items
to purchase.”

41. How to Demo
1. Open Search page.
2. Enter multiple keywords.
3. Initiate search.
4. View results of catalog items
that contain one or more of
the keywords in their title or
description.

42. Test Cases
1. Quoted strings used for
exact matching.
2. Test operators AND, OR, +,
and -.
3. Results come back in under
5 seconds.
4. Try invalid characters.

43. User Story
Search Catalog
As a registered user I want the ability to search
the online catalog so that I can find items to
purchase.
Business Value: 600 Story Points: 8

44. User Story
How to Demo
1. Open search page.
2. Enter multiple search criteria.
3. Initiate search.
4. View results of catalog items that contain one or more of the
keywords in their title or description
Tests
• Quoted strings used for exact matching.
• Test operators AND, OR, +, and -.
• Results come back in under 5 seconds.
• Try invalid characters.

45. Story Wall
Register New User
As a role I want this ability for
this business value.
Business Value: 900
Login
As a role I want this ability for
this business value. Catalog Items
Enter
As a roleSearch Catalog
I want this ability for
this business value.
As a registered user I want the
Business Value: 700 ability to search the online
catalog so that I can find items to
purchase.
Business Value: 600
Business Value: 600

46. Zoo Points
Lion
Kangaroo
Rhinoceros
Bear
Giraffe
Gorilla
Hippopotamus
Tiger

47. Story Points

48. Story Points

49. Story Points
1 2 3 5 8
13 20 40 100 ?

50. Story Points
2 5 8 10
Register New User
As a role I want this ability for
this business value.
Business Value: 900
Login
As a role I want this ability for
this business value. Catalog Items
Enter
As a roleSearch Catalog
I want this ability for
this business value.
As a registered user I want the
Business Value: 700 ability to search the online
catalog so that I can find items to
purchase.
Business Value: 600
Business Value: 600

51. Planning Poker

52. Planning Poker

53. Planning Poker
3 5
? 13
5

54. Planning Poker

55. Planning Poker
3 5
5 5
5
3

56. Agile Planning
with Scrum
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57. Scrum is Iterative
Sprint
Sprint
Review Product
Project
Initiation Increment
Sprint
Planning
Sprint
Retrospective

58. “Planning is
essential,
the plan is
useless.”

59. Register New User
As a role I want this ability for this
business value. Login
As a role I want this ability for this
business value. Enter Catalog Items
As a role I want this ability for this
Business Value: 900 Story Points: 3
business value.
Search Catalog
Business Value: 700 As a registered user I want the ability
Story Points: 3
to search the online catalog so that I
can find items to purchase.
Business Value: 600 Story Points: 5
Business Value: 600 Story Points: 8
Prioritizing the
Product Backlog

60. Business Value Business Priority
Guided Search Suggested Items
As an online shopper I want to be As a frequent shopper I want to see
able to filter my search results by suggested items that have relevance
category, price range, and to the item I am viewing to find other
manufacture to further reduce my items I may be interested in but have
search results to better find my not seen in the catalog.
desired items.
Business Value: 800 Story Points: 8 Business Value: 600 Story Points: 2
Business Value: 800 Business Value: 600
Story Points: 8 Story Points: 2
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ROI: 100 ROI: 300

61. Product A
900
Product B
500
Product C
100
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62. Product A Enterprise
Product Backlog
Product B
Product C
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63. Release Planning

64. Initial Velocity Calculation
Scrum Team: 4
Sprint (wks): 3
Work Days: 45
Factor: 1/3
Velocity: ~14

65. Release Planning
Product Backlog
3
Sprint 1 3
2
Release 1
3
Sprint 2 1
3
3
Sprint 3 2
3
3
Release 2
Sprint 4
5
Sprint 5 8

66. Yesterday’s Weather
Velocity
18 20
14 16 14 15
Sprints

67. Yesterday’s Weather
14
Velocity
18 20
14 16 14 15
Sprints

68. Yesterday’s Weather
18
Velocity
18 20
14 16 14 15
Sprints

69. Release Planning
Product Backlog
3
Sprint 1 3
Sprint 1
2
Worst Case Scenario
Best Case Scenario
3
Sprint 2 1
3
Sprint 2
3
Sprint 3 2
3
3
Sprint 3
Sprint 4
5
Sprint 5 8

70. Sprint
Planning

71. Sprint Planning
Product Owner Product Backlog
Scrum Team Sprint Backlog

72. Sprint Planning
Velocity Product Backlog
3
9 Story Points Sprint 1 3
2
3
1
3
3
2
3
3
5
8

73. Sprint Planning
Velocity
9 Story Points
-2 Story Points
7 Story Points

74. Sprint Planning
Search Catalog: 3
As a Catalog Customer I want
the ability to search the online
catalog to find items I am
interested in purchasing.

75. Sprint Planning
Search Catalog: 3
As a Catalog Customer I want
the ability to search the online
catalog to find items I am
interested in purchasing.
Create Search Page: 8hrs
Create Query class: 4hrs
Create Search Manager class:
2hrs
Create Search method: 8hrs

76. Keeping a Sustainable Pace

77. Keeping a Sustainable Pace

78. Sprint

79. Sprint (Daily Scrum)
Scrum Master Scrum Team
Sprint Impediment
Sprint Backlog Burndown List

80. Sprint Task Board
User Stories Not Done In Progress Done Deferred
Do this Do this Do this
As a user I and and and
want this to that. that. that.
do that.
Do this
and
that.
As a user I Do this Do this
and and
want this to
that. that.
do that.
As a user I Do this Do this
and and
want this to
that. that.
do that.
Do this
and
that.

81. Sprint Burndown Chart
350 hrs.
Work Hours Remaining
This is a
sticky
note.
This is a
sticky
note.
0 hrs.
Time

82. Sprint
Retrospective

83. Sprint Retrospective
Product Owner Scrum Master
Stakeholders &
Scrum Team Users

84. “No plan of battle
ever survives
contact with
the enemy.”

85. Scrum is Iterative
Sprint
Sprint
Review Product
Project
Initiation Increment
Sprint
Planning
Sprint
Retrospective

86. “The plan is meaningless..”

87. Questions?
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88. THANK
YOU

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