Agile Estimating and Planning

with Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn returns to Sweden and Citerus in October 2009. This one-day workshop will teach you effective techniques for the process from gathering of requirements to making a release plan.

Last time these classes were given in Stockholm they were filled to capacity, and the number of seats for this class is limited, so please make sure to register in good time!

Agile Estimating and Planing Training
One-Day Workshop
Planning is important, even for agile projects. Unfortunately, we've all seen so many worthless plans that we'd like to throw planning out altogether. The good news is that it is possible to create a project plan that looks forward six to nine months that can be accurate and useful. Too many teams view planning as something to be avoided and too many organizations view plans as something to hold against their development teams.

During this one-day workshop you will learn how to break that cycle by learning and practicing skills that will help create useful plans that lead to reliable decision-making. You will leave with a solid understanding of and experience at agile release planning and iteration planning. We will look at various approaches to estimating including unit-less points and ideal time. The course will describe four techniques for deriving estimates, including how to use the popular Planning Poker® technique. We will look at techniques to create a plan that dramatically improves the project's chances of on-time completion.

Participants Will Learn

• The importance of estimating size and deriving duration
• The differences between story points and ideal time
• The advantages of an abstract measure of size
• Techniques for estimating
• When and how to re-estimate
• How and when to perform release and iteration planning
• Tips for communicating about estimates and plans

Target Audience
This course is equally suited for managers, programmers, testers, or anyone involved in estimating or planning a project. Participants will be able to return to their jobs with specific recommendations and actions they can perform to improve their current plans and projects.

Venue
Nordic Sea Hotell, Vasaplan 4, 101 37 Stockholm, map>>

Citerus can help arrange accommodation at the location for participants; please contact info@citerus.se for more information.

Mike Cohn
Mike Cohn is the author of Agile Estimation and Planning (Prentice Hall PTR 2005) and User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Professional 2004) as well as several programming books. With more than twenty years of experience, Mike has been a technology executive in companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 40s, is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and ran his first Scrum project in 1995. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com

Citerus
Citerus is Sweden´s premier consulting firm in agile software development. We offer a full range of services related to improving how software is created and maintained, including training, coaching, management and expert technology consulting. Please visit http://www.citerus.se for more information on how we can assist in increasing your software development success rate.
 

More information

• Certified Scrum Product Owner, October 21-22
• The books