Planning poker in a nutshell
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The document discusses the concept of story points in Agile planning, emphasizing that they are relative, team-specific, and collaboratively estimated by team members. It highlights the challenges and potential misuse of story points in estimation meetings and points out the limitations of relative estimation. The text advocates for awareness of these issues while acknowledging that story points, despite their problems, are a commonly used method in Agile environments.
Planning poker in a nutshell
- 1. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Seb Rose Planning poker in a nutshell
- 2. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io • Nutshell • Pi5alls • Alterna;ves
- 3. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Story points have no units
- 4. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Story points are rela;ve
- 6. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io The people doing the work es;mate story points collabora;vely
- 8. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Velocity is the average number of story points delivered per itera;on
- 9. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Velocity is used to help decide which stories can be delivered in an itera;on
- 10. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io • Nutshell • Pi2alls • Alterna;ves
- 11. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io We’re not very good at rela;ve es;ma;on, either
- 13. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io It’s easier to compare small things
- 15. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io It’s difficult to compare apples and bricks
- 16. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Es;ma;on mee;ngs frequently become dysfunc;onal
- 17. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Story points are prone to misuse
- 18. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io People oNen forget ‘slack’
- 19. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io • Nutshell • Pi5alls • Alterna4ves
- 22. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io MMFs 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Naked Planning In progress Urgent Average delivery ;me from here: ?? days
- 24. @sebrose h)p://cucumber.io Story points are: • Widely used • Problema;c • Not the only op;on
- 25. Seb Rose Twi)er: @sebrose Blog: h)p://cucumber.io E-mail: seb@cucumber.io