Hi-- I heard today that copies of ³Agile Estimating and Planning² are shipping from Amazon. So, they¹ll presumably be shipping elsewhere soon and become ...
Hi Mike, Congratulations on your book. A great effort! I've been intending to do some Agile writing for a while now, and it is very encouraging and motivating...
Congratulations! I've been your fan since User Stories Applied. I read the draft chapters of AEP and loved them, and recommended your books to my clients. I...
Thanks for the notice. BTW the downloadable chapter on estimating has a curve that shows the peak of value around 75% accuracy (probably confidence is a better...
Hello everyone, Hope all is well. I am looking for good articles/threads which I can learn from to move my organization from a Use Case (CockBurn) based...
Animikh, Have you checked out Mike's books? Are there specific questions that you have? His books are easy to read, are helpful and make sense! julie ...
Thanks guys ( in a gender neutral sense)! Ilja, the link was very helpful. Julie, I have read the User Stories Applied book and waiting for the new one on...
Animikh, An agile team I recently coached had great success generating user stories at the outset of a project for the purposes of: release planning, ...
When using that analogy, do you run the danger of having things referred to as "half-baked" or was that intended? ;) (Sorry, couldn't resist) -- Kent J....
... The notion of p-baked, for small p, had some currency some years back. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Make it real or else forget about it -- Carlos...
Wanted to follow up and update our community... We found good use of Infopath as a tool to capture User Stories and also to link several inforpath "cards" to...
I wasn't familiar with Infopath so I just checked it out. (If like me, you didn't know of this product--it's from Microsoft and is oriented around making...
SPA2007 - the Conference for Software Practice Advancement 25th - 28th March 2007 in Homerton College, Cambridge, UK www.spaconference.org ***The closing date...
Looking for suggestions regarding: How far do we go with requirements/user stories in a fixed price contract (larger project)? Ideally, we would get into user...
Hi Luke-- I recently wrote an article on this subject. I also recently revamped my entire website so that it's now easier to add articles I've written, which...
Luke - the most salient point to this discussion is the relationship between unknowns and the risks involved in a project. As Mike Cohn pointed out in his...
Thanks Bud, Just read Mike's article 'Writing Contracts for Agile Development'. If I understand correctly, writing user stories along with the acceptance test...
Thanks Mike. Just responded to Bud's post before I saw yours. I do use buffering (as well as other things, like exchange requests) in fixed price, but wanted a...
I look forward to reading about your experiences as you progress, Luke. Regards, Mike Cohn Author: Agile Estimating and Planning User Stories Applied ...
Mike, In a contract arrangement how do you plan for spikes? Spikes happen on an as needed basis, but when you have to nail down your costs do you ballpark a...
The frequency and length of spikes is related to the amount of uncertainty in the product. If you do the two-point buffered estimating (where you estimate a...
Hello-- I've been remiss in posting much (anything) to this list lately. However, I've got some good news to share right now. As you many agree, "Planning...
... them. Mike or Thijs, I created an account and was trying it out myself before attempting to try it with some teams. Overall, I like the group participation...
Hi Pete-- Thanks for taking the time to review this preview version. I'll comment below on your items. My email client is having trouble with Yahoo's mail and...
We're looking for a couple of endorsement quotes we can use on www.planningpoker.com. There are some made up, temporary sample ... However, we obviously want...
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