Agile Estimating and Planning

Mike Cohn

Key Facts and Insights from the Book

  1. The concept of Agile Estimating and Planning is not about exactness, but a range of possible outcomes that help in mapping a probable path to project completion.
  2. Estimation in Agile is a continuous process, not a one-time activity.
  3. Agile estimation is about establishing relative sizes of stories and features, not about establishing exact sizes.
  4. Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique that uses relative sizing to derive estimates.
  5. Story points are used in Agile estimation to abstract the estimation process from the actual time taken to complete a task.
  6. The book introduces...

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