Tag: estimates

Using Zoom polls for planning poker in Agile teams

Planning poker cards
Planning Poker cards from Mountain Goat Software

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about using planning poker in Agile teams, for estimating user story size. But that was when we were all sitting in the same room and not shielding from Covid-19.

Things have changed now. Here are a few options that I’ve tried.

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Instead of focusing on better estimates…

A tweet from John Cutler has been challenging me recently:

Instead of focusing on making ‘better’ estimates, focus on:

  • working smaller
  • integrating frequently
  • exposing work to users/customers sooner
  • testing assumptions earlier
  • limiting dependencies
  • less fragile code
  • limiting handoffs

Your estimates will improve.

Why?

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