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Agile Estimating and Planning

by Mike Cohn ISBN: 978-0131479418 I bought this book because I'm generally rubbish at estimating (I usually under estimate). Also, although we have the technical elements of agile (source control, unit tests, continuous integration, etc) sorted, my agile project management is not all it could be. Agile Estimating and Planning may be as close as I ever get to a silver bullet. To be honest I expected to be let down and that the scenarios described in the book would not match the situations I find myself in. I was not let down at all. The book covers both planning when features are important and planning when a deadline is important. It taught me that it was wrong to break stories into tasks when release planning and to leave that for iteration planning. The book discusses the use of both story points and ideal days in estimating, what they both are, the differences between them and then suggests you should use story points. It described what release and iteration planning are and whe...

ACCU London March 2010 (2)

Last night I presented the 60 minute version of Enterprise Application Development in Java with AJAX and ORM for ACCU London . A couple of people asked for the slides, so here they are: http://paulgrenyer.net/dnld/Enterprise_Application_Development_-_ACCU_London.pdf and the video can be found here: Part 1 Part 2