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January 19th, 2010

[Webinar] The Agile Planning Game

A 90-minute webinar with details on how to play "The Agile Planning Game" (also known as "Planning Poker") to build top-down estimates and schedules for agile projects.

So, you've heard about these new agile management techniques.  You may even have attended a conference session or have read a book on it.  It all sounds so simple... in theory.   But how do you get started? 

The #1 topic people ask about when learning agile is how to estimate and build schedules using these methods.  Our project sponsors need to know how much a project will cost and how long it will take before they can authorize us to begin.  How do we prepare reasonable estimates and a schedule when we haven't done our detailed requirements analysis? 

While there are several solutions to this problem, the most popular is called The Agile Planning Game.  This technique brings together a whole multi-disciplinary team and builds a consensus on a set of estimates. The Agile Planning Game is specifically designed to avoid the problem of "group think" -- where  minority opinions are withheld to avoid criticism or due to a lack of self-confidence. With input from all affected disciplines, the result is a set of estimates that are less likely to miss an important aspect of the work, have full team buy-in, and are more likely to match the actual work effort required. 

Join this 60-minute webinar and learn the technique that has taken the agile world by storm:  The Agile Planning Game.  Learn how to use this technique to prepare estimates and schedules for your agile projects, and improve your chances of project success.   

 

Agenda:

• Agile Estimating and Planning Overview
• Story/Complexity Points vs. Ideal Days
• Agile Scheduling:  Release Plans, Iteration Plans, and Day Plans
• Using Velocity to Build a Release Plan
• The Agile Planning Game
• Q & A

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