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| Category: | General - Books | By: | PTR Prentice Hall |
| More info: | www.phptr.com | Author(s): | Mike Cohn |
| Pages: | 330 | Year of publication: | 2006 |
In this book, concepts are illustrated and readers are guided toward how to answer the following questions: What will we build? How big will it be? When must it be done? How much can I really complete by then? You will first learn what makes a good plan-and then what makes it agile.Using the techniques in Agile Estimating and Planning, you can stay agile from start to finish, saving time, conserving resources, and accomplishing more. Highlights include:- Why conventional prescriptive » Read more... |  |
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In this book, concepts are illustrated and readers are guided toward how to answer the following questions: What will we build? How big will it be? When must it be done? How much can I really complete by then? You will first learn what makes a good plan-and then what makes it agile.Using the techniques in Agile Estimating and Planning, you can stay agile from start to finish, saving time, conserving resources, and accomplishing more. Highlights include:- Why conventional prescriptive planning fails and why agile planning works;- How to estimate feature size using story points & ideal days - and when to use each;- How and when to re-estimate;- How to prioritize features using both financial & nonfinancial approaches;- How to split large features into smaller, more manageable ones;- How to plan iterations and predict your team's initial rate of progress;- How to schedule projects that have unusually high uncertainty or schedule-related risk;- How to estimate projects that will be worked on by multiple teams.Agile Estimating and Planning supports any agile, semiagile, or iterative process, including Scrum, XP, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, DSDM, Unified Process, & more. It will be a resource for every development manager, team leader, and team member.