A whirlwind tour of of agile estimation from the perspective of planning poker. By the end of this session you'll know what planning poker is, why it was proposed, what it's useful for, how to get better at it and why it will never be perfect. I'll also introduce you to some variants and alternatives.

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Seb Rose
Planning poker
in a nutshell

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• Nutshell
• Pi5alls
• Alterna;ves

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Story points have no units

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Story points are rela;ve

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Story points
are
team specific

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The people doing the work
es;mate story points
collabora;vely

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Velocity is the average
number of story points
delivered per itera;on

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Velocity is used to help
decide which stories can be
delivered in an itera;on

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• Nutshell
• Pi2alls
• Alterna;ves

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We’re not very good at
rela;ve es;ma;on, either

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It’s easier to compare
small things

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It’s difficult to compare
apples and bricks

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Es;ma;on mee;ngs
frequently become
dysfunc;onal

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Story points are
prone to misuse

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People oNen forget ‘slack’

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• Nutshell
• Pi5alls
• Alterna4ves

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Probabilis;c planning

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MMFs
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7.
Naked Planning
In progress Urgent
Average delivery
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#NoEs;mates

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Story points are:
• Widely used
• Problema;c
• Not the only op;on

25. Seb Rose
Twi)er: @sebrose
Blog: h)p://cucumber.io
E-mail: seb@cucumber.io