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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.

  • Learn about best practices in Agile
  • Challenge your understanding of timing and estimation
  • Engage with fundamental Scrum techniques
13 Questions3 MinutesCreated by EstimatingEagle42
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...
What variables do we take into consideration when estimating?
Hours
Hours and minutes
Risk
Complexity
Effort
Uncertainty
Experience on the tecnology
Experience on the feature or domain
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 techniques we can use to make sure everyone understands the story?
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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