My publisher, Addison-Wesley, has just made two chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning available for free. Check out Chapter 1, The Purpose of Planning, and Chapter 3, An Agile Approach.
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I live in Colorado, which boasts some of the world’s best hiking trails and North America’s greatest concentration of mountain peaks over 14,000 feet (nearly 4,300 meters). There are so many mountains over 14,000 feet high here that they are referred to simply as “fourteeners.” Most of Colorado’s fourteeners are non-technical routes; no special [...]
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agile release planning, Best Hiking Trails, Concentration, Different Ways, Estimating and planning, False Peak, First Approach, Good Shape, Inefficiency, Many Mountains, Mountain Peaks, North America, Priority, Release Planning, Rock Slide, Route Plan, Topographic Map, True Summit, Valleys
A rejection of the idea that agile teams should use a Release Backlog in addition to the already generally accepted Product and Sprint (or Iteration) Backlogs.
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An explanation of the relationship between story points and hours.
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agile estimation, Amount Of Time, Estimates, Estimating and planning, Good Job, Insight, More Time Than Others, Normal Distribution, People, Point Distributions, Relationship, Shape, Standard Deviation, Story Points