📅 2024-02-15 — Session: Explored Agile Estimation Techniques for Project Management
🕒 18:15–18:45
🏷️ Labels: Agile, Project Management, Estimation, Story Points, Ideal Days
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to explore various estimation techniques in agile project management, focusing on improving planning accuracy and efficiency.
Key Activities
- Analyzed common pitfalls in traditional project planning and suggested a value-centric approach.
- Explored agile methodologies, highlighting their flexibility and efficiency compared to traditional methods.
- Discussed agile estimation techniques, including the use of story points and team velocity.
- Introduced the concept of ‘ideal days’ for measuring task size and duration in agile development.
- Reviewed different agile estimation techniques, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and precision.
- Compared story points and ideal days, recommending gradual adoption of story points for teams struggling with abstract estimations.
Achievements
- Gained insights into agile methodologies and their application in project management.
- Clarified the distinction between size and duration estimations in agile projects.
- Identified effective estimation techniques and their benefits in agile environments.
Pending Tasks
- Further exploration of real-world applications of agile estimation techniques in ongoing projects.
- Evaluation of team readiness for adopting story points as a primary estimation method.