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| Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series)
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Author: Mike Cohn
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Release Date: 2005-11-11
ISBN-10: 0131479415
ISBN-13: 9780131479418
List Price: $49.99
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This is the eBook version of the printed book. Detailed, Proven Techniques for Estimating and Planning Any Agile Project. Agile Estimating and Planning is the definitive, practical guide to estimating and planning agile projects. In this book, Agile Alliance cofounder Mike Cohn discusses the philosophy of agile estimating and planning and shows you exactly how to get the job done, with real-world examples and case studies. Concepts are clearly illustrated and readers are guided, step by step, toward how to answer the following questions: What will we build? How big will it be? When must it be done? How much can I really complete by then? You will first learn what makes a good plan-and then what makes it agile.Using the techniques in Agile Estimating and Planning, you can stay agile from start to finish, saving time, conserving resources, and accomplishing more. Highlights include:- Why conventional prescriptive planning fails and why agile planning works- How to estimate feature size using story points and ideal days-and when to use each- How and when to re-estimate- How to prioritize features using both financial and nonfinancial approaches- How to split large features into smaller, more manageable ones- How to plan iterations and predict your team's initial rate of progress- How to schedule projects that have unusually high uncertainty or schedule-related risk- How to estimate projects that will be worked on by multiple teamsAgile Estimating and Planning supports any agile, semiagile, or iterative process, including Scrum, XP, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, DSDM, Unified Process, and many more. It will be an indispensable resource for every development manager, team leader, and team member.
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| Customer Rating:  | | This book has all the information needed for start working and refining scrum estimation. The only complain I have is the chapter over deciding between story points and ideal days, you should skip it(just use story points) and everything else is very valuable. |
Great book...Helped me on the PM concepts of Agile.
| Customer Rating: | | I enjoyed this book...I found it helped with the project management aspects of Agile while keeping grounded in common sense. |
Agile Planning bible...
| Customer Rating: | | Mike takes agile planning to a new level with this one of kind book. Its a pretty simple read, not to high level but enough detail to get you through in the weeds of your day. |
Great, but it could have 100 pages less.
| Customer Rating: | I've read this book because of the "Planning" in the title. It does cover planning, but not in the depth that I was looking for.
It shows a lot of good concept ideas, like prioritizing based on mandatory, linear and exciting features. Or when it talks about using a story as tracer bullet to provide more info to the team. I really like the idea of the theme parking lot.
For someone that uses scrum on a daily basis, the idea of creating tasks just before comitting to a story sounds silly, but it makes a lot of sense.
The book gets really very good after page 200. It's where most of the "planning" is.
The Case Study on last chapter is really very good.
I would recommend this book to everyone interested in agile development, but it's not a introductory book. It's more for the middle practitioner. |
For project managers and developer who want to fullt under the agile methodology
| Customer Rating: | This book is a well written synopsis of how an agile methosology should work, with adhering to a hard and fast methodology ( be it XP or SCRUM or Crystal). I would recommend this book to anyone who is using or is planning to implement an Agile setup. This book shows that Agile, does not mean 'no' planning, far from it, but shows that estimating project size is key to delivering on time and what is expected.
I recommend it to project managers and developers who are mature enough to understand that guess work makes everyone's job harder and that software is developed to support business needs that must lead to profit
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