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Mastering Estimation in Agile

Test your knowledge on Agile estimation practices with this engaging quiz! It's designed to help you understand key concepts of refinement and estimation in Scrum.

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What is refinement?

The moment when the product owner read the stories

It is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items

A meeting that happens a few times a week that gathers the team in full

Means adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog

Where the team gets the exact estimates in hours for every task

Can be a series of different activities

Refinement usually consumes...

3 hours a week

Around 50% of the team time

No more than 10% of the team time

What is the aim of the refinement?

Get clarity for the stories that will potentially be taken in the next sprint

Put numbers on stories

Agree the quicker possible on the estimates

Who is the major responsible for refinement?

Mainly the PO as this person knows the stories

SM as this person schedules the meeting

Development team as the development team estimates it

The full team as the outcome of the sprint belongs to the team in full

Why do we estimate?

Gives us an overview of the scope of work

Rectifies false assumptions

Uses multiple perspectives to determine the size of work

Clears out that we can’t be exact

To get the exact time we are going to spend

Is the estimation a relative measure or an absolute one?

Relative= compared to something

Absolute= Like cm, hours...

While estimating we take into account:

My own work

Whole team effort to deliver a story

My speciality work (QA, dev...)

Who has the final voice when estimating?

The people with more time in the team

The people with more time in the company

The senior people

Everyone has the same voice

What is planning poker?

The only way of estimating in scrum

One of the multiple techniques to estimate in scrum

It doesn't appear in the scrum guide

A technique mostly used in Scrum and Extreme Programming

Why in planning poker the cards are hidden until everyone votes?

To avoid the cognitive bias where the first number spoken aloud sets a precedent for subsequent estimates

To make it more fun

To make it more personal and avoid influences

How many rounds of voting planning poker has?

One

Two

No more than three

Any rounds needed to make a consensus

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