Let's build an Airport – How to estimate large scale projects
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Martin Gude discusses the importance of precise estimations for large scale projects, emphasizing their role in planning and budgeting. The document outlines a step-by-step approach to estimating tasks in an agile environment, including gathering information, defining high-level tasks (epics), breaking them down into manageable items (stories), and collaboratively estimating their complexity. An example of a project to relaunch a garment supplier's website is provided to illustrate the estimation process.
Let's build an Airport – How to estimate large scale projects
- 1. LET‘S BUILD AN AIRPORT HOW TO ESTIMATE LARGE SCALE PROJECTS MARTIN GUDE · @MA6 · MA6.ME · #UXCW16
- 4. USUALLY I TALK ABOUT USER EXPERIENCE STRATEGY
- 7. PRECISE ESTIMATIONS HELP TO PLAN TIMINGS, WORKLOAD AND STAFFING
- 8. PRECISE ESTIMATIONS ARE NEEDED TO ALLOCATE A BUDGET
- 9. PRECISE ESTIMATIONS ARE ALREADY SOME KIND OF RAW CONCEPT
- 10. AND HOW TO?
- 13. TOOLS & ARTIFACTS FOR GATHERING INFORMATION: BRIEF, VISION, PERSONAS, SCENARIOS, CUSTOMER JOURNEYS AND MUCH OTHER STUFF. YOU NAME IT.
- 14. JUST USE ANY TOOL YOU LIKE AND YOU‘RE FAMILIAR WITH.
- 16. GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROJECT AND CREATE HIGH LEVEL TASKS** ACCORDING TO AGILE NOMENCLATURE I CALL THOSE TASKS EPICS
- 17. BREAK THEM DOWN TO MANAGEABLE* ITEMS* IMO IT SHOULD NOT TAKE MORE THAN 5 DAYS PER ITEM, ACCORDING TO AGILE NOMENCLATURE I CALL THOSE ITEMS STORIES
- 19. DEFINE A COMPLEXITY MEASUREMENT I RECOMMEND SIMPLE, MEDIUM, COMPLEX. AND YES SURE NON ESTIMATABLE.
- 21. GO THROUGH YOUR STORIES AND ESTIMATE THE COMPLEXITY
- 22. YOU‘RE DONE
- 23. ONE LAST THING
- 25. NOW EXERCISE
- 26. (VERY) BRIEF Real Outdoor Life, a successful outdoor garment supplier, wants to relaunch their website. They sell their products in high class outdoor stores. They also started to open brand flagship stores in city centres. Currently they have a website that provides informabon about their products online but does not include any ecommerce acbvibes. The website has three main objecbves: • Deepen the relabonship between the brand and their loyal customers (fans) • Provide real bme informabon about product availability in their flagship stores and reservabon of those items • Provide informabon about the clothes that can be accessed in store
- 27. GET THE ESTIMATION TOOL ON ONYGO.ORG (IN SOME DAYS)
- 28. AH YES: WE‘RE HIRING FOR DUS AND FRA.
- 29. LET‘S HAVE A