Agile Planning and Project Managemen T: Mike Cohn

Agile
Planning
and Project
Managemen
Mike
Cohn
Agile
t
2013
August 5,
2013
1
Mike Cohn
• Founding member of Agile Alliance & Scrum
Alliance
• Founder of Mountain Goat Software

• Doing Scrum since 1995
• Started my career as a programmer
• VP Engineering in 4 companies
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and
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Agenda
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• Planning

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Iterativ
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pieces

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Incremental
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time

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Iterative &
•incremental
Do some of one part then some of
the next

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Six levels of
planning
Strategy
Portfolio
Team focuses here Release
Team focuses here Product
Iteration
Team focuses Daily
here
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A release
plan
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7
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Agenda
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and
incremental
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• Estimating
• Planning

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How long
to…
• Drive to
Seattle
• Read a…
ahem… good
book
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Estimate size; derive
Size ➞ Calculation ➞ Duration
300 Velocity= 300÷20=

kilograms 20 15 iterations
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Goat Software
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Two Units For
ESTIMATING
1 2
Ideal Story
Point
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Time s 23
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Ideal time
• How long a thing will take if:
• it’s all you work on
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• no one interrupts you © Copyright Mountain Goat
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Software
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Story points
• How long a user story will take
to develop (eﬀort)
• Influenced by
• Complexity •
Risk
• Uncertainty •
® Etc. © Copyright Mountain Goat
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Your time cannot be added to

mine
• You can run the trail in 5 minutes
• I can run it in 10 minutes
• We can’t agree on how long it will take to run
® • But we can agree the trail is 1km
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Planning
Poker®
• Each estimator has
cards with valid
estimates
• A product backlog item is
discussed
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estimate
• Cards are turned over
• Discuss diﬀerences
(especially outliers)
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• Repeat until consensus 29
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Agenda
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and
incremental
• User stories
• Estimating
• Planning

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Velocity
50
45
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30 4 29
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20
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0
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How much can 5×38

be delivered in ➞
5 iterations?
Product
® Backlog
Software 34
Using a confidence
interval
50
45
40 42
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30 4 29
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Story
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1
0
0 Iterations
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Calculating a confidence interval

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end
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8–10 1
11–12 2
13–15 3
16–17 4
18–20 5
21–22 6
23–25 7
26+ 8
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A better answer: 5×34

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38
Fixed-scope
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Sum the product backlog
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by the velocity range
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Mike Cohn
mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com
www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
fb.com/mountaingoatsoftware
linkedin.com/in/mikewcohn
twitter: mikewcohn
(888) 61–AGILE
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Agend
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and
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progress

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progress

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Three Ways to
Track
Progress
1 2 3
Release Sprint Task
Burndown Board
Burndown s
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® Goat Software
A release burndown
chart
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Tasks Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri
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Mike
Cohn
mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com
www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
fb.com/mountaingoatsoftware
linkedin.com/in/mikewcohn
twitter: mikewcohn
(888) 61–AGILE
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Add details as A a peim

© Copyright Mountain Goat

© Copyright Mountain Goat

Estimate size; derive

Size ➞ Calculation ➞ Duration

300 Velocity= 300÷20=

Your time cannot be added to

© Copyright Mountain Goat

© Copyright Mountain Goat

How much can 5×38

Calculating a confidence interval

A better answer: 5×34

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