Hi Mike, I am not fully sure whether you have already done so, but I feel you could include the scope vs schedule vs Cost balancing nature of Agile (Include...
Sridhar-- You are correct that I haven't correctly set this out as a fundamental issue. I plan to better address this in one of the first chapters. Thanks, ...
Hi, Is anyone aware of any work, papers written on how to estimate project effort using agile methodologies such as XP? As this information is required in...
Take a look at www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agileplanning or at www.agilealliance.org/articles. Mike Cohn Author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software...
Mike, I was reading Chapter 5 (Iteration Planning) hoping it would help me give better advice. I notice in the section titled "From features to tasks" you have...
Hi Mike-- Good questions. First, that list isn't meant to be sequential. I'll mix it up in the next draft so it doesn't look that way. My recommendation is...
When I teach or coach iteration/sprint planning with a team, I like to discuss with them two approaches to task breakdowns -- a "horizontal" approach and a...
Hi Mike, Excuse me if this has already been addressed, but I didn't see a topic on budget forecasting in the PDFs published to date. I did a talk at a...
I have been struggling with providing my various product owners with a reasonable (that is they can explain it back to me) explanation about the duration of an...
Paul-- Fantastic distinction. I tend to guide teams toward what are considered by others to be very small stories (typically 2 to no more than 5 days of work ...
Hi Victor-- That topic is covered in the "Buffering Plans for Uncertainty" chapter. In that chapter I write about how to estimate a schedule (and staffing...
Interesting strategy Ron! In my own personal experience, iteration length has been bounded from above and below by the answers to the following two questions: ...
Interesting notions, Brad ... ... We differ here, on two grounds: First, I have found that shorter iterations are almost always "better" (TDB if interesting); ...
Interesting notions, Brad ... ... We differ here, on two grounds: First, I have found that shorter iterations are almost always "better" (TDB if interesting); ...
Thanks Mike, I look forward to reading it, I'll check back periodically. Great work, btw, this book is a long time coming. -- Victor Szalvay ... chapter. In ...
The more skilled the team, the faster they'll go. Therefore more gets done in an iteration and it's risky to go too long. I completely disagree with extremely...
My preference is to take the number of days to the deadline divide that by itself and then multiply by two weeks, thus always giving an iteration length of two...
Could it be that the entrance of Project Portfolio Management on to the Traditional Project Management Stage makes Agile, Scrum and Xp more feasible in a...
... I have always run into a limit. The organization Im in doesnt meet certain "pure" requirements for "true" agile (such as a fully dedicated customer), plus...
... Yes ... I wouldn't go below a week ... ... Let's talk ... perhaps only one one of these estimable lists ... about what heavyweight requirements there are,...
... Yah - am hoping to get into some of those in the thread about "lean" traceability without manual traceability matrices. ... I'm trying to recall if we had...
... feasible ... Mike, I hope so. I have been trying to do "Agile Enterprise" stuff since 1996. First at Mercer, then at Nike, then at Bank of America, then...
Hello-- I¹ve updated the website with what are probably very near final drafts of 4 chapters. The first 3 chapters have there and are revisions of chapters ...
Hi Mike, I've just read the case study and I like it. The choice of product was inspired. It reads well. I love the way they did market research. A few...
Hi Clarke-- Thanks for the suggestions. There were many additional things I would have liked to have this team encounter but the length stopped me. I¹ll see...
Two more suggestion ... this time about the length and overall structure. 1. This section is quite long, but it really is very good. I'm a slow reader but I...
Thanks, Clarke. I¹m inclined to leave this as one chapter. Breaking it up more seems to put a bigger gap in the story than I want. I don¹t know how to ...
I replied to this once and I think it got lost - trying again (but that's why, if there are two replies). I read (quickly due to lack of time) the chapter with...
Hi Lisa, you scurvy tester-- Thanks for the comments. The "havannah" and "Havannah" (italicized) was meant to be the difference between the name of a game and...
Mike are you planning on posting the chapter on Iteration Planning prior to publishing? The idea of committment based planning as you have described below ...
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