Agile Estimation with Planning Poker

Slides "Agile Estimation with Planning Poker" by Hector Benitez at Regional Scrum Gathering Peru 2016 #rsgpe2016

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1. APRIL 2016 AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER
2. Today’s focus AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER WHAT IS PLANNING POKER REQUIREMENTS HOW TO PLAY BENEFITS 8
3. What’s Planning Poker? AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER Planning poker is a consensus-based, gamified technique for estimating, effort in development tasks in software development.
4. • A few service design terms • Frontstage & backstage • Elements of a service • Service blueprints AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER Why estimate? ➔ To prioritize product backlog ➔ To make longer-term predictions
5. Why PlanningPoker? AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ No bias ➔ Independent thinking ➔ Reach consensus ➔ Ownership
6. What you need AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ User Stories ➔ Egg Timer ➔ Sets of cards (local teams) ➔ PlanningWith.Cards app (distributed teams)
7. Special Cards AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER DON’T UNDERSTAND CAN’T ESTIMATE TASK IS DONE NEED A BREAK ? ∞ 0
8. Who gets to play? AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ All developers ➔ Scrum Master/Project Manager* ➔ Product Owner* OBSERVERS ONLY ➔ QA ➔ Designers
9. How to play AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER
10. How to play AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ Each player = 1 deck of cards ➔ ScrumMaster moderates the meeting ➔ Moderator provides quick task overview ➔ Opportunity to clarify assumptions and assess risks ➔ Product owner answers any questions
11. How to play AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ Each estimator privately picks a card and don’t show ➔ All cards are simultaneously shown ➔ People with high or low estimates justify their estimation ➔ Use the egg timer to limit this discussion ➔ Repeat until a consensus
12. When is the estimate good enough? AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ How many rounds? ➔ Average, Highest, Lowest, Majority?
13. FAQ about participants AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ Planning Poker for Designers/QAs? ➔ ScrumMaster? ➔ Product Owner? ➔ Mixed teams? ? ? ? ?
14. Story Points AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER It’s an arbitrary number that tells the team how hard the story is ➔ Example ➔ Baseline 15 3 40 ? ? ?
15. Story Points vs Hours AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ Story Points are about effort ➔ Story points are for stories ➔ Could involve multiple roles/persons ➔ Not every 3-point story will take exactly the same amount of time ? ?
16. Velocity AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ Sum of estimates to be delivered for features per iteration ➔ Gets more accurate with time TWO APPROACHES 1. Commitment-driven sprint planning 2. Velocity-driven sprint planning
17. ➔ After a story-writing session ➔ At the start of the sprint planning ➔ Once per sprint (Grooming) When to use it? AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER Sprint !
18. Why do we ♥ Planning Poker? AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ Discussions lead to accurate estimations ➔ Not just the opinion of principals ➔ Greater understanding of work ➔ Leverages collective knowledge and teamwork ➔ High level architecture and design discussion ➔ Ownership of estimate
19. Recommendations AGILE ESTIMATION WITH PLANNING POKER ➔ Voters = Who actually do the work ➔ Avoid long technical discussions ➔ Time the session ➔ Use the “I need a break” & “question” cards ➔ Use PlanningWith.Cards for distributed teams
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21. Thank you! Héctor Benítez hector@nearsoft.com hbenitez.nearsoft @HectorBenitez
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