Agile Estimating and Planning with Mike Cohn and Mikael Boman

May 5, 2010, at Nordic Sea Hotel, Stockholm

Mike Cohn returns to Sweden and Citerus in May 2010.
This one-day workshop will teach you effective techniques for the process from gathering of requirements to making a release plan.

An earlier participant says“ You were a great instructor and you absolutely, forever altered my perspective on project management process." (about Mike Cohn)

About the 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.

Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn is the author of Succeeding with Agile:Software Development using Scrum, 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 25 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 länk till annan webbplats

Mikael Boman

Mikael Boman has been in the software business since 1996, when he co-founded Citerus (www.citerus.se), and has been focusing on agile software development since the late 1990s. He was a Certified Scrum Master by Ken Schwaber in 2003 and has been working with Scrum ever since. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and one of the most experienced agile consultants in Sweden. He has worked with companies of all sizes and in all types of businesses in Sweden and in the US. Mikael is the organizer of the Scrum User Group Sweden and he was the local partner for the Scrum Alliance when organizing the ScrumGathering in Stockholm Sweden in 2008.

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 länk till annan webbplats

for more information on how we can assist in increasing your software development success rate.