Agile Estimating and Planning

with Lance Dacy, CST of Big Agile

Many agile teams struggle to answer the question, “How much by when?” This course shows you how to create plans you can confidently share with stakeholders. 

After this course, you’ll be able to split, estimate, and prioritize backlog items, ensure your forecasts align with business goals, and explain your thinking clearly to non-technical audiences. By the end of the day, you’ll have the tools to turn complexity into clarity and uncertainty into actionable plans.

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Through Agile Estimating and Planning, you’ll learn to:

  • This course helps you determine how much can be delivered by when.
  • It covers fixed-date, fixed-scope, and fixed-everything projects and will give you the skills to create accurate plans 3, 6, or 12 months into the future.
  • Plan complex projects, including those that require deliverables by specific dates.
  • Communicate plans to stakeholder,s including the need for accuracy rather than precision
  • Manage backlog items that have the greatest uncertainty to reduce project risk.
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Benefits

  • Apply story points, planning poker and affinity estimating to achieve meaningful forecasts.
  • Estimate those unknowns: how to handle large, uncertain backlogs and emerging work.
  • Communicate plans clearly to stakeholders: explain story points, justify estimates, and answer tough questions.
Lance

Your Instructor

As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Lance has trained and coached teams through many successful Scrum implementations since 2011, from Fortune 20 companies to small start-ups. Lance is also experienced in showing agile coaches and managers how to help cross functional, self-organizing teams deliver high value for customers as early as possible by using Scrum. 

Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, CAL-1, A-CSM, A-CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, Path to CSP Educator, Scrum Foundations Educator. 

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