Hi Avi, Try not to think about estimating in time at all, ideal or otherwise. Just have the developer and tester estimate the size of each story relative to...
... What is your purpose in estimating? What will it give you? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utterly...
Hi Avi I think that if you choose to use Ideal Days you will be falling in a common pitfall of this approach. Estimating in Ideal Days it´s too connected to...
Hi Avi-- Tobias and Luciano have provided great answers on this but I'll try to add one response in anticipation of your next question :) The programmer and...
I've got to head Ron's direction on this one. I would use pure commitment based planning and, if you must create burndown/up/out charts, just use average...
If the developer and tester are rooted in old thinking, commitment-based planning may be ineffective. Estimating is less about coming up with numbers than it...
Hi all and thanks for the input. This is a collective reply to Tobias, Luciano and Mike, since your advice seems to be in the same camp. I realize your point...
Hi brandon and Ron. At first, Ron's reply seemed a bit too Zenny for what I was asking, but Brandon's reply made me understand you were referring to CBP. Now,...
Avi, Sorry for the delayed response. ... If the stories on the backlog are within a certain tolerance for size (i.e. they fit within a 2 week iteration) then...
... will ... it?) ... experience ... up ... not ... Sorry, came on late to this thread but was intrigued by the question - should we estimate at all? Many...
Hi all, i´m currently searching for best practices in agile estimating. I found the book from Mike, btw great stuff ;). But what i still haven´t found are...
Sounds like someone has a psych paper due. Re-read Mike’s book, notice that all estimations are team based and that generalizations are not applicable across...
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Hello, i am product owner and we have two scrum teams in our company. Estimating is done with story points. During our sprint planning meetings, the scrum team...
I can understand their frustration, we've all gone through that. First I think the main obstacle I've found is understanding *WHY *we need estimates. It's not...
Hello, Angelo. On Friday, June 19, 2009, at 11:44:06 AM, you ... What do you do with the information as to how much you can get done during a Sprint? And why...
... Why doesn't the Product Owner just answer their questions? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog Know what I pray for? The strength...
Hi Uwe-- I advise teams to do commitment-driven sprint planning. The team selects one item from the product backlog, splits it into tasks and hours, and then...
I think we're stuck a little on semantics. When I say "I" i mean "as a member of the team, each one of us must ask ourselves"... What I was trying to...
In any methodology when given the estimation task I always factor in that details missed will exist and add it to the estimate. Given the product backlog I...
... This is waste that a kanban pull system eliminates. It's easier to get by with that story inside a large corporation, but it is quickly exposed when you...
... I doubt whether the time saved on estimating is going to allow kanban teams to surge ahead very substantially. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
Hi Ron, Whenever you talk, I try hard to absorb and understand. Where does this doubt come from? I've been experimenting with kanban for a couple years now ...
Hi Ron, Sorry about recent miscommunication. Either I'm not doing a good job of communicating, or you are taking devil's advocate to the point that I'm ...
... The time spent estimating compared to time spent developing is already small. Kanban may have many advantages but time saved planning is not likely to be a...
... It has to be you. We all know that the written word communicates perfectly unless the reader screws up. ... Yes ... ... Yes. I recommend using real...
... I figured so :) ... Yes ... I agree. ... Once again I must have mis-communicated. I get the feeling that I leave an impression that kanban is a process....
Hello, John. On Saturday, June 20, 2009, at 10:36:26 PM, you ... Yes, for you. For those on the kanbandev list, on the other hand, it is more. I'm more...
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