Agile Estimating in Scrum – Why Estimate Twice?

by Kelly Waters, 29 April 2010 | Agile Estimating

In my series of posts "How to Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps", I refer to two stages of estimating: Step 2 is how to estimate your Product Backlog. Step 4 is estimating tasks in Sprint Planning. Someone recently asked me a very good question - why estimate twice? I thought it would be worth addressing this question here... The idea is that the first estimate, in points, is a high level...
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Agile Software Development Estimating Experiment

by Kelly Waters, 25 January 2010
Agile Estimating

I recently came across this agile estimating experiment by Lance Walton. The article is quite old now but I still found it very interesting... In recent years, I've had quite a fascination...
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