Enabling Agile teams to do story point estimation
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Outline/Structure of the Experience Report
-Background context: We will share the setting, nature of work and process model as it was. What were the problems and what was the wish list.
-Hear our experience from implementing story point estimation in a team.
-We will share How we spread to other Scrum teams. What ideas/techniques and tools we used.
-Challenges we faced, both from people, mgmt and tools. Like one of the challenge was that people were very used to old tools and needed the continuity of data. Other challenge was the wrong assumptions about Agile like go live date cannot be derived
-How does the picture look now. How the current setup works. How with this being success the bottlenecks have been removed and team is not self organized and empowered to drive the releases
-Summary : In the end we plan to give a step by step guide that worked for us to empower the team to do story point estimation.
Learning Outcome
Post this session you can retrospect your approach VS what worked for me
Take home a real example of a team that did it togather
(PS: link to slides is not for this session but presentation slides I used for Agile training to software engineers)
Target Audience
All, leaders, team members, Agile evanglist
Links
Atulya Mahajan is a published author. He has books from publishing houses like Random House. His blog on India – from the eyes of a non resident outsider is very popular . His twitter handle has nearly 15,000 follower. His articles are published in ToI, HT and more.
Kiran Chhabra is the lesser known speaker. With more than 13years of experience in software industry and a wide experience of working with giants and startups, she accrues the knowledge base that has helped her train more than 150 people on Agile. I was part of the 1st India Agile Executives’ Conclave 2014. Theme of the conclave was Leading Agile organizations
schedule Submitted 7 years ago
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