Succeeding with Agile: Estimation and Sprint Planning, All about Estimation and Sprint Planning that will help Scrum Masters improve their team’s Sprint performance.
Course Description
Estimation and Planning are two basic practices that are essential for the success of every team. Most agile teams struggle with estimation and planning because they continue using traditional planning approach that is designed for manufacturing and works for well-defined, standardised products. Traditional planning approach is not effective for complex knowledge work.
In this course, we will share practical insights based on my coaching experience with 10+ organizations and 100+ agile teams.
We will cover two common estimation approaches – No Estimates and Story Point Estimation.
Plus, we answer 12 frequently asked questions on Story Point Estimation:
- Is SPE mandatory? Should all Scrum teams use it?
- Who should participate in the estimation process?
- Why do we use Fibonacci sequence?
- How to address estimation for Complex user stories?
- Can we change the Story Point estimate during Sprint?
- Can we split unfinished stories at the end of Sprint?
- What is the relation between Story Points and time?
- Why Story Points? What are the benefits?
- How to estimate subtasks, bugs, production defects, spikes?
- When should we change the wall of reference?
- How to analyze (and improve) the accuracy of estimates?
- How to estimate Epics, Features, Initiatives?
In Sprint Planning, we discuss why traditional planning approach does not work well for Sprint Planning and how to make a shift to an Effective Sprint Planning.
We also cover the following 8 frequently asked questions on Sprint Planning:
- How do we decide how much work to plan for a Sprint?
- Why estimate Subtasks in hours/days?
- How much buffer should people keep while estimating?
- Do we need to update task-level efforts during Sprint?
- How to handle spillovers from previous Sprint?
- How to plan an item when we have open questions?
- How to address external team dependencies during Sprint Planning?
- Are there any other ways of planning Sprint?
