Agile Estimating and Planning - La Jolla

Register Jul 31, 2008 La Jolla
8:30 AM Mike Cohn
16:30 PM $600

About This Agile Estimating and Planning Course

Agile Estimating and Planning teaches skills that will help create useful plans. Course participants learn and practice in such a way that they leave the training with a solid understanding of agile release planning and iteration planning, as well as actual experience in these processes.  This popular training for agile projects examines various approaches to estimating including unit-less story points and ideal time.

The course will also 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.

The Critical Questions

Two of the most important questions asked on any project are “When will we be done?” and “How soon can I have everything I've asked for?” These are not impossible questions. By taking an agile approach to estimating and planning, teams can learn how to create useful estimates that lead to reliable plans.

PMPs: This course counts for 8 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

 

Participants Will Learn

Agile development training 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

Who Should Attend

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.

About Mike Cohn

As the founder of Mountain Goat Software, Mike Cohn specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques to build extremely high performance development organizations. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. He has also written articles for Better Software, IEEE Computer, Software Test and Quality Engineering, Agile Times, Cutter IT Journal, and the C++ Users' Journal. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and was a founder of both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. He can be reached at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This agile course is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at (720) 890-6110 or by e-mail at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

 

Agile Estimating and Planning – The Book

Agile Estimating and Planning is an enormously useful guide for estimating and planning agile projects. More information on the book is available on this site. The book guides readers through the agile estimating and planning process with step-by-step coahing and plenty of real world applications. Agile Estimating and Planning supports any agile, semiagile, or iterative process, including Scrum, XP, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, DSDM, Unified Process, and many more.

 

This course is also available onsite. For information Contact Mike Cohn

 



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