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Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series)
By: Mike Cohn Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Prentice Hall PTR Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 368 Publication Date: November 11, 2005
Great book...Helped me on the PM concepts of Agile. I enjoyed this book...I found it helped with the project management aspects of Agile while keeping grounded in common sense.
Agile Planning bible... Mike takes agile planning to a new level with this one of kind book. Its a pretty simple read, not to high level but enough detail to get you through in the weeds of your day.
Great, but it could have 100 pages less. I've read this book because of the "Planning" in the title. It does cover planning, but not in the depth that I was looking for.
It shows a lot of good concept ideas, like prioritizing based on mandatory, linear and exciting features. Or when it talks about using a story as tracer bullet to provide more info to the team. I really like the idea of the theme parking lot.
For someone that uses scrum on a daily basis, the idea of creating tasks just before comitting to a story sounds silly, but it makes a lot of sense.
The book gets really very good after page 200. It's where most of the "planning" is.
The Case Study on last chapter is really very good.
I would recommend this book to everyone interested in agile development, but it's not a introductory book. It's more for the middle practitioner.
For project managers and developer who want to fullt under the agile methodology This book is a well written synopsis of how an agile methosology should work, with adhering to a hard and fast methodology ( be it XP or SCRUM or Crystal). I would recommend this book to anyone who is using or is planning to implement an Agile setup. This book shows that Agile, does not mean 'no' planning, far from it, but shows that estimating project size is key to delivering on time and what is expected. I recommend it to project managers and developers who are mature enough to understand that guess work makes everyone's job harder and that software is developed to support business needs that must lead to profit
Spot on I have been acting as the Scrum master for my team for about 6 months. We have gotten pretty good at planning and executing an iteration at a time. Our customers have always wanted to see a longer-term plan. I've read several other books but none of them have come close to this one. It has been invaluable in helping us to prioritize, estimate, plan, and communicate several iterations in advance.
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