Agile Estimating and Planning PDF Download Ebook. Mike Cohn was defining, driving, and delivering great software that matters to the business. Mike's clarity, insight, and experience leap out through every page of this book, offering an approach that is relevant and immediately useful to all members of an Agile project.
Mike Cohn's breakthrough book gives us not only the philosophy, but also the guidelines and a proven set of tools that we need to succeed in planning, estimating, and scheduling projects with a high uncertainty factor. At the same time, the author never loses sight of the need to deliver business value to the customer each step of the way.
This book is organized in seven parts and twenty-three chapters. Each chapter ends with a summary of key points and with a set of discussion questions. There are describing why planning is important, the problems we often encounter, and the goals of an agile approach, introduces a main tenet of estimating, that estimates of size and duration should be kept separate, advice on how a project team can make sure they are building the best possible product, looking at the steps involved in scheduling a relatively simple, single team project, plan an iteration, select an appropriate iteration length for the project, estimate a team's initial rate of progress, how to schedule a project with either a high amount of uncertainty or a greater implication to being wrong about the schedule. This part concludes with which describes the additional steps necessary in estimating and planning a project being worked on by multiple teams.
The book is clear, well organized, and a pleasant and valuable read. It goes into all the necessary detail, and at the same time keeps the reader's burden low. We can dig in as deeply as we need to, without too much detail before we need it. The book really brings together everything we have learned about Agile estimation and planning over the past decade. It will serve its readers well.
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