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.

Software Planning and Estimation Learning Program

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.

Use multilevel planning

To create plans only as you need them to coordinate immediate action rather than planning for planning’s sake.

Use proxy estimation

To give teams that must present outside the team a good, accurate, and fast method that is useful in agile development practices.

Apply prioritization methods

To help teams inside the agile boundary stay focused while still coordinating with other teams.

Use story point estimation

To free the agile team to focus on design by switching from a promise estimation activity to an ambiguity estimation activity.

Use task estimation

To help the agile team be a team (rather than parallel individuals) by doing detailed design together.

Plan sprints

To increase the agile team’s ability to flow work and to give the Product Owner a better idea of progress.

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.

Always customized

Built to address the specific areas where your team needs to improve.

Immediate application

Focused on real-world skills you can apply directly to your work.

Personal mentoring

Active mentoring helps you apply your new skills to your actual challenges.

Easy virtual access

More active learning with easier logistics—no sitting in a classroom all day!

Incremental learning

Sessions are short and spread out so that they don’t eat your schedule and break your flow.

Free bonus content

Your Learning Program comes with full access to our library of online courses.

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