Agile Planning & Estimating Training by Agile Serbia

You are a member of Scrum team that has a challenge with planning, and you would like to improve your skills of estimation?

“Agile Planning & Estimating” is a one-day training that provides an elaboration of Agile Planning and Estimating principles, practices and techniques, why to estimate and how to plan. Businesses need estimates to influence project selection, resource allocation, also to understand what will be delivered. Furthermore, when and at what cost, so needs good base for a successful plan. Training will help you with planning and show you how to create meaningful estimates even for complex, long-term projects.

Is Agile Planning and Estimating Training for you?

Although many teams find planning as a potential break, still planning is a key part of all project development. Even with agile ones. It is possible to create a project plan that looks forward 6-9 months and is accurate and useful. Training provides insight into the common reasons what kind of advantages you can obtain comparing to traditional planning method.

What are the main benefits?

This training will introduce participants with importance of estimating size and deriving duration, also with differences between story points and ideal time, same as with advantages of an abstract measure of size.

Training will introduce participants with new skills to use in creating improved plans for reliable decision-making. Participants also leave with excellent understanding of, and experience with, Agile release and iteration planning. Training provides multiple approaches to estimating, including unit-less points and ideal time. Noteworthy participants will also learn techniques for deriving estimates.

How will you work on the training?

Training cover topics such as techniques of estimating and how and when to re-estimate, or how and when to perform release and iteration planning and offer some tips for communicating about estimates and plans.

What will you learn at the training?

Some of the training topics are:

🔎 Agile Planning;

🔎 Story Points;

🔎 Relative Sizing Exercise;

🔎 Techniques for Estimating;

🔎 Agile Estimating;

🔎 Sprint Planning;

🔎 Team’s velocity;

🔎 Release Planning;

🔎 Q&As.

How will this be your career milestone?

After the training you will know:

✅ What is Agile approach to planning and what are characteristics of Agile Planning;

✅ Different levels of Agile Planning (Release Plan, Sprint Plan and Daily Plan);

✅ About introduction with term of Story point, what are main characteristics of Story points, why to use Story point. Also, how they are different in comparation with ideal days;

✅ What relative estimation is and how is it different comparing it with absolute estimation;

✅ About introduction to Relative Sizing with practice through an exercise;

✅ Techniques for Agile Estimating, such as Estimates by Analogy, Disaggregation and Planning Poker. Topic is introducing with three levels of planning (release plan, iteration plan and daily plan);

✅ When is right time to estimate and why – you will learn why estimation is hard, when to re-estimate and what is a difference between estimation and commitment;

✅ About two techniques for sprint planning: Velocity-driven and Commitment-driven Iteration;

✅ About the term “Team’s Velocity” and how to forecast team’s velocity when you have a team with historical data or when your team is new to Agile;

✅ How to do Release Planning with historical team’s velocity – you will also learn how to predict release contents with fixed date, fixed scope or fixed price plans.

Is this training for you?

Primarily this training is dedicated, but not limited to…

💭 Product Owners;

💭 Scrum Masters;

💭 Development team;

💭 All familiar with Scrum framework or who have been using Scrum framework for some time.

It is of sufficient interest if…

For this training, it will be highly recommendable for a participant to have previous knowledge of User Stories and the Definition of Done.

It is highly recommended to attend it along with the “Agile Requirements & User Stories” training. The content of the two courses is highly complementary, therefore the participants will obtain more knowledge if they attend both courses.

Details about Agile Planning & Estimating Training:

As the all available trainings by Agile Serbia & Puzzle Software, Agile Planning & Estimating Training is organized on scheduled date, or can be organized on request (on-site) where the Company is the host.

Training is carefully structured to help executives keep ahead of rapidly evolving business environments.

Duration: 1 working day, from 9am to 5pm
Certification: No
SEU points: Earn up to 8 SEUs, Category C

Note: SEUs are structured on a point system, and SEU is based on a 1:1 ratio of contact hours to points. Full day of training is equivalent to 8 SEUs. You are required to earn Scrum Education Units (SEUs) by completing educational training or learning opportunities as a validation of your continued proficiency and because of your future certification.

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Agile Planning & Estimating Training