Agile Planning and Estimation: Generally Accepted Scrum Practices is the fourth chapter of a nine-chapter book entitled Head First Agile. I have completed reading and reviewing this chapter.
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Agile Planning and Estimation
Generally Accepted Scrum Practices
“Scrum teams plan their projects together so that everybody on the team commits to each sprint’s goal. To maintain the team’s collective commitment, planning, estimating and tracking need to be simple and easy for the whole team to do as a group. From user stories and planning poker to velocity and burndown charts, Scrum teams always know what they’ve done and what’s left to do. Get ready to learn the tools that keep Scrum teams informed and in control of what they build!”
Topics covered in Chapter 4: Agile Planning and Estimation: Generally Accepted Scrum Practices include the following:
- Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
- So… what’s next?
- Introducing GASPs!
- No more 300-page specs… please?
- User stories helps teams understand what users need
- Story points let the team focus on the relative size of each story
- The whole team estimates together
- No more detailed project plans
- Taskboards keep the team informed
- Question Clinic: The red herring
- Burndown charts help the team see how much work is left
- Velocity tells you how much your team can do in a sprint
- Burn-ups keep your progress and your scope separate from each other
- How do we know what to build?
- Story maps help you prioritize your backlog
- Personas help you get to know your users
- The news could be better…
- Retrospectives help your team improve the way they work
- Some tools to help you get more out of your retrospectives
- Exam Questions
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