As I understand the commitment-based method of sprint planning, the team should create tasks, estimate them, and then agree to commit to it. Based on this,...
Hi-- In your example of a task taking one hour, I want to make sure I understand the example. If you are saying 5 people could work for 12 minutes each or one...
Kimberly It sounds like you are trying to use your experience with past process measures to run this effort. Keep in mind that if your team members are doing...
My current project (15-person team) uses Scrum planning, 2-week sprints, and XP engineering practices. All of our estimates are in pair-days. We do some...
Mike, In my example, I was assuming that regardless of whether or not 1 or 20 people work on the task, if it is a 1 hour meeting, the estimated time on the...
Hi Kimberley-- Yes, you want to use person-hours. It's the only way to be consistent among tasks like meetings (5 people x 1 hour = 5 person-hours) and testing...
Kimberly there are at least two ways of looking at this time. first there is the duration; say a task takes 1 hour no matter how few or many people are...
Hi everyone-- The ³Agile Estimating and Planning² book is just about done and I¹d like to thank everyone here for their generous comments, contributions,...
Mike, I think Chapter 6 is a good choice because it shows the style of explaining how to do things but also shares why certain approaches are appropriate ...
Hi Mike, Congratulations! You must feel good about this .. and very relieved. What are you going to do with your spare time now? I liked the estimation...
Hi Mike Congratulations on your achievement. This is one piece of work I have been looking forward for quite some time. Unfortunately, I could not see the...
Congratulations on the book! I have enjoyed and learned a lot from the few chapters that you put for review so I will be looking forward for the book! I would...
Hi Clarke-- That¹s an excellent idea. I¹ll run that by Addison-Wesley and make sure they¹d be OK with it. Yes, I¹m glad this book is done. For the longest...
Hi Bapiraju-- Ooops. Yes, I¹d linked to the sample incorrectly. I fixed it last night after I got your email. Thanks, Mike ... Re: [agileplanning] Which...
Thanks, Clarke. It took me awhile to get used to the really dark cover but those I ran it by early really liked it. I wanted the tie-in with the sailing...
Thanks, Jacques. I¡¯m glad you¡¯ve enjoyed the book and learned from it. I appreciate hearing that and that you agree that the estimation techniques ...
... Chapter 6 looks good. However, the graph showing accuracy against effort has "accuracy" as the label on both axes. I hope it's not too late to change it. ...
Dear Mike, My personal opinion is that posting the Chapter on Agile Planning or Why Agile Planning works would be more interesting. Estimation is a crucial ...
Hi Anthony-- Thanks for catching that. I'd noticed it last week right before submitting the final PDFs so it was OK in the final files. I'd extracted the...
... Really ? Could you tell a bit more about the topics ? Kind regards, Sven <http://www.refactoring.be/> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agilearticles/> ...
I think Ch. 6 is a good choice. Something people can get their teeth into without getting overwhelmed. Personally I think reading Jim Highsmith's foreword...
So I went an ordered the book on amazon. DECEMBER 6!!!!! Yee gads man. Think carefully about how you want to pace the buzz, it should be a great book to get...
I¹ve been told that Amazon assumes that any book they don¹t have a firm date on is two months away. They must not have a firm date on this one although the...
October 24th! Hmm the week before.. You are making this too easy Mike. 8^) Seriously I have been in conversations with people who want to use this approach...
Hi Mike, I just made some people in my office go through the exercise of planning/estimating using your cards and have followed up with an email asking that...
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