What is missing from current approaches to agile estimating and planning?
Every agile methodology has estimating and planning approaches, but they assume the presence of the project team. They are not always usable before the team is assembled or to pick the optimal size of...
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What is an Agile Estimator?
Picture by Knell Center, Cornell University The term agile estimator is bursting with ambiguity. According to the New Oxford American dictionary, estimator has two meanings: Statistics a rule, method,...
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Where Does an Agile Estimator Go for Help Estimating the Size of an Application
Photograph by Smithsonian Institution Software size measures can be functional or non-functional. Functional size is based on the functionality of the application. For example, adding screens to an...
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When Should Agile Projects be Estimated and Why?
Picture by the U.S. National Archives Like voting, agile projects should be estimated early and often! Estimating Early First question, how early is early? Too Early I worked with someone who said they...
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Who Should Estimate Agile Projects and Why?
Photo belongs to San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives The Team In traditional scrum writings, the team consists of the developers who are delivering user stories. It does not include the scrum...
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The 6W’s of Agile Estimation
The poster above is from the War Production Board of the Office for Emergency Management. It was used between 1942 and 1945. I should use it to introduce something, but the “6 W’s” title is already...
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The World of the Agile Estimator
The above diagram shows how estimating should be done in agile projects. The team goes through estimating and planning steps described here. Many agile practitioners are debating whether they should...
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HoW do you estimate an agile project?
HoW is the sixth W. I posted the above framework in Composing an Agile Estimating Process. There are many ways that this framework could be instantiated. In fact, there are many ways that this...
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