planning

Running an Agile Release Planning Meeting

May 8, 2014 0

This presentation will help you understand what it takes to run a successful agile release planning meeting. The release planning is the “pacemaker” of enterprise agility and the Agile Release Train (ART) which aligns the Agile program to a common mission. Based on nearly a decade of experience, Dean Leffingwell and Scaled Agile have developed a process which has worked with small trains of 40 people to larger trains of 180. This video explains what it takes to run a successful Agile release planning meeting from a scaled point of view (100′s of teams).

Better Predictability with Smaller User Stories

February 24, 2014 0

User stories and their size are often the basis for planning a Sprint in Scrum. You can use a relative estimation and planning poker or a more classical approach to define the effort for each user stories. As such, they are also the basis for the metrics of progress and the velocity of the Scrum team.

Agile Planning with User Stories

January 30, 2014 0

If Agile approaches are tools that allows to deal with uncertainty and change, they have often little impact on the management mindset that still requires to have deadlines proposed with software development projects. In this blog post George Dinwiddie discusses the usage of user stories for planning in Scrum projects.

Giving Life to a Product Backlog

December 5, 2012 0

In this article, Christophe Le Coent discusses how you can express a Scrum product backlog to provide enough planning information to management but still following the Agile principle that “welcome changes over following a plan”.

Agile Budgeting and Contracting

October 19, 2012 0

How do agile projects accurately forecast their budget when they are typically just a bunch of hippies coding without requirements or documentation? Waterfall projects are obviously much better at budgeting with all of the traditional up front design and planning, right? Anyone who has been on a waterfall project can see that this is a complete fallacy.

Release Planning Value

September 20, 2012 0

In this article, Vaidhyanathan Radhakrishnan discusses about the value of release planning in Scrum. This is the tool to schedule timelines for a project or a product in a complex environment where the outcome of one team is required for the other teams. The article proposes an approach to produce a release plan. This approach is based on the finding primary and secondary features in the product backlog. You can then determine whether the resources are adequate and what interdependencies exist to adjust the feature layout. The article presents the advantages of a release plan and the common disadvantages of this situation, like including ongoing or generic activities spread across the timelines which dilutes the focus of the plan.

Agile Planning Advanced Topics

August 6, 2012 1

Velocity is perhaps the most useful metric available to agile teams. Mike Cohn looks at advanced uses of velocity for Agile planning under special but common circumstances. Learn how to forecast velocity in the complete absence of any historical data. You will look at how a new team can forecast velocity by looking at other teams and see how to predict the velocity of a team that will grow or shrink in size. Most importantly you will learn to use of confidence intervals to create plans we can be 90% confident in, even on fixed-price or fixed-date contracts.

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