Planning & Estimation for Hybrid Agile Teams
Team-Level Agile Planning
Agile development teams in hybrid environments (agile + sequential; software + hardware) are being called on to create more plans and do more estimation than in a pure agile development environment. Learn how planning and estimation work in agile development work efforts, and gain the skills to plan and estimate, not for the number, but for the team understanding that planning and estimating generate.
Great hybrid agile teams master these skills
You’ll learn them all in Team-Level Agile Planning and why they’re important. Once these skills are benefitting your teams, you can learn how to support planning and estimation for people outside the team in the Planning Across the Agile Boundary program.
Topics at a glance
Before your program starts
Find your planning & estimation strengths/weaknesses
Identify target learning areas
Meet with your mentor and review
Agile planning & estimating practices
Define plans at multiple levels
Identify agile planning points in the hybrid environment
Clarify what makes an estimate good
Why estimate agile parts of a hybrid work effort?
A roadmap for planning and estimating in agile development
Planning & estimation with the backlog
Estimate product backlog items (PBI) collections size
Estimate backlog priority across the hybrid environment
Defining “Ready” for the agile development team
Breaking up a PBI for incremental development
Identifying dependencies
Setting up sprint planning
Characteristics of a good user story
Using story points
Bootstrapping initial velocity
Sprint planning overview
Selecting stories for sprints
Creating the sprint plan
Defining and estimating plan items (tasks)
Creating work patterns
Planning the four types of sprint work
Creating a task board
Collecting task estimate feedback
Using a burn down chart
Why are our Learning Programs so effective?
We interviewed more than 400 software leaders around the world and what did they request?
Customized, minimally disruptive virtual sessions that focus on real-world results through a balanced mix of coursework, self-study, and expert mentoring.