Abstract: Have you experienced a lot of energy and time spent with your teams centered around estimation? Do you feel that everyone isn't quite on the same page? There are a number of challenges on teams who wish to work with an agile mindset, and negative patterns around estimation can have quite the impact on productivity and team morale.
In this workshop, participants will revisit what a Product Backlog Item represents as well as exactly what an estimate represents. Using this as a foundation, session participants will learn about four distinct parts of a pattern that repeats itself in organizations who may not have a strong handle on these concepts. The workshop concludes with participants participating in a lightweight estimation exercise that they can then take back to their organization.
Having a better understanding of estimation is helpful, and combined with a simple yet powerful game to compare items relatively to one another will help break your teams of the pattern of misunderstanding the point of backlog item estimation.
Learning Outcomes: - Revisit the fundamental concepts of Product Backlog Items and Estimates
- Share past experience of estimation activities with other participants
- Explore the pattern of misunderstanding around backlog item estimation
- Learn to facilitate a lightweight and collaborative estimation exercise
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