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Friday, January 23
Planning Poker with One Programmer
by
mcLEAN
on Fri 23 Jan 2009 14:52 GMT
You certainly will find it challenging to make use of the convergence and consensus aspect of estimating this way if it’s just you all on your lonesome – however you can still use the sequence that is on the cards more »
Thursday, October 9
Planning Poker stalemate
by
mcLEAN
on Thu 09 Oct 2008 10:52 BST
A problem that can often occur in planning poker is a stalemate situation - i.e. the same cards are played by each player for more than one round without a consensus being reached more »
Sunday, September 14
Thursday, July 31
Has the Schedule been Anchored?
by
mcLEAN
on Thu 31 Jul 2008 13:05 BST
As a general rule in planning its good to employ practices that mitigate against presumption influencing reality and this is well illustrated by the success that Planning Poker can bring to the software development process. more »
Thursday, May 22
Use Structured User Stories for Agile Benefit
by
mcLEAN
on Thu 22 May 2008 12:45 BST
Using structured user stories in the form AS A, I WANT TO and SO THAT offers a greater agile benefit to the data that represents the requirements without adding in too much additional data to supply the structure - it gets the balance just right on ceremony. more »
Saturday, April 26
Friday, February 29
Planning poker for senior management
by
mcLEAN
on Fri 29 Feb 2008 07:04 GMT
The customer usually wants to see a plan as early as possible - it’s a reasonable request and its perfectly ok to do this providing the communication of the plan and its risks is carefully articulated and the pros and cons of the method are clearly understood by all. The key to mitigating the cons coming into play is to have a poker game with the senior management from both the customer and supplier. more »
Thursday, February 21
Standard Deviation Buffers for better schedule and estimate management.
by
mcLEAN
on Thu 21 Feb 2008 12:05 GMT
Clients who want to be confident about a schedule to deliver an agreed set of functionality on time and within budget will benefit from the development team implementing standard deviation buffers... more »
Sunday, February 10
Planning Poker for distributed teams
by
David McLean
on Sun 10 Feb 2008 07:57 GMT
PlanningPoker.com is a fantastic way to play planning poker with distributed teams... more »
Make time for Planning Poker
by
David McLean
on Sun 10 Feb 2008 07:45 GMT
Planning Poker requires the teams full attention, dedication, preparation and most of all time... more »
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