Affinity Estimation is a technique many agile teams use to quickly and easily estimate a large number of user stories in story points. Other estimation methods like Planning Poker or Bucket System are effective methods of establishing consensus in small projects. Affinity Estimation is a great technique if a project has just started, and has […]
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Dot voting is usually considered a decision-making tool, not an agile estimation technique. For example Dot Voting is preferred to select the most important 2-3 items during sprint retrospective. It’s a simple and effective way to prioritize or indicate the value of several small items quickly. When there is a relatively small set of items and
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The Bucket System Estimation technique is used when there is a very large number of items to be estimated with a medium to large group of people, and to do it quickly. This approach provides a consistent way for teams to size stories by discussing each story in terms of pre-defined complexity buckets before deciding
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Agile teams need to estimate the size of their stories or product backlog items. The goal of the White Elephant Game is to get a quick estimate of the relative size of an agile project and the size of the individual stories before the project starts. It gives opportunity to everyone for their voices to be
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Agile Estimation is the process of finding an approximation level of effort, which is a value that is usable for few purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable. Traditional waterfall method uses bottom up approach with the smallest tasks at the bottom. But agile uses two estimation techniques,Top-Down Estimation and Relative
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Planning Poker is a consensus-based technique for estimation, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of development goals in software product development. Planning Poker is done with story points, ideal days, or any other estimating units. The Scrum Master, Product Owner, and the development team participate in Planning Poker activity. Purpose: Estimate the effort
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