If you are new to agile methods—or trying to improve your estimation and planning skills—this session is for you. David Hussman brings years of experience coaching teams on how to employ XP, lean, Scrum, and kanban. He advises teams to obtain the estimating skills they need from these approaches rather than following a prescribed process. From start to finish, David focuses on learning from estimates as you learn to estimate. He covers skills and techniques from story point estimating delivered within iterations to planning without estimates by delivering a continuous flow of value. Going beyond the simple mechanics of estimation and planning, David explores agile techniques to enable continuous learning and ways to prevent sprint planning sessions from becoming empty rituals. Join David and your peers to practice your agile estimation and planning techniques so they can become powerful tools within your project.

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Half‐day Tutorial
6/4/2013 1:00 PM
"Agile Estimation and Planning:
Scrum, Kanban, and Beyond"
Presented by:
David Hussman
DevJam
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2. David Hussman
DevJam
Working with companies of all sizes worldwide, David Hussman teaches and coaches the
adoption of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. Sometimes he pairs with developers and
testers; other times he helps plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with
leadership groups to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and a competitive
business advantage. Prior to working as a full-time coach, he spent years building software in a
variety of domains: audio, biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education. David now leads
DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam
focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production
skills. For more information, visit devjam.com.

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Agile Estimation & Planning
Scrum, Kanban & Beyond
We Coach and Produce
Design
Deliver
Learn
DevJam Productions
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The Source for This Session
Where are we headed today?
Planning to Discover
( product - people - technology )
Planning to Deliver
( Scrum - Kanban - “NanBan” )
Learning from Delivery
( measuring - learning - pivoting )
The Tools and the Tells
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Planning to Discover
( product roadmaps )
( teams and programs )
( technology and systems )
Planning to Discover
Product Thinking and Planning
( user - use - context )
Planning with People and Teams
( dude - team - program )
Dealing with Technology and Systems
( tools - frameworks - apps - systems )
Planning to Discover
Product Thinking and Planning
( user - use - context )
Planning with People and Teams
( dude - team - program )
Dealing with Technology and Systems
( tools - frameworks - apps - systems )
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Product Thinking
Making Product Choices
Collaborative
Chartering
Pragmatic
Personas
Story
Maps
All
Product
Ideas
Slices
Product
Development
User
Interviews
Market
Research
Let’s do some product thinking
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Planning to Discover
Product Thinking and Planning
( user - use - context )
Planning with People and Teams
( dude - team - program )
Dealing with Technology and Systems
( tools - frameworks - apps - systems )
How far out should you plan?
How far out can you plan?
How far out must you plan?
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Potential
Realities
Capacity, Velocity and Constraints
Delivered
Let’s do some road mapping
Across Teams and Across Time
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Planning to Discover
Product Thinking and Planning
( user - use - context )
Planning with People and Teams
( dude - team - program )
Dealing with Technology and Systems
( tools - frameworks - apps - systems )
Applications and Systems
Constraints and Dependencies
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Planning to Deliver
( Scrum - Kanban - “NonBan” )
How much process is enough?
W
V= H
W
V= H
Dude’s Law: Value = Why / How
There are many delivery styles
Remember: process is a set of tools not a solution
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From Cycles to Flow
What tools do you need?
Sprint Backlog
Burndown
Sprint Reviews Sprints Product Backlogs
Daily Scrum Meeting Cross Functional Teams
Iterations
Kanban Personas Test Driven
Releases
Kaizen User Stories Refactoring
Iteration 0 Velocity
Mura Acceptance Tests Technical Debt Burnup
WIP Evolutionary Design Chartering
Continuous Integration Retrospectives
Domain Driven Design Common Workspace
Collective Ownership Information Radiators
Pivot MVP Story Map Sustainable Pace
Story Telling Story Points Planning Poker
What is your next best investment?
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Let’s do some delivery planning
Across Teams Within Cycles
Integration and Testing
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Learning from Delivery
( measuring - learning - adapting )
Remember Me?
Adversity comes in many forms
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Success requires agility
The future is often unlike the past
One last thought …
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Nanban: It’s only part of the meal
Questions
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