Kanban, Sprint Planning and Agile Product Management Just Got Easier
Introduction
Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, “Agile Estimating & Planning Your Sprint with Scrum”.
In this class, you will be given proven tips to help you to estimate and plan sprints as part of your scrum projects.
I am very confident that you will find this class valuable, as it will give you a complete overview of estimating and planning in agile scrum teams. In this class, I go to great lengths to dissect the topic and present it in an easy to understand manner for both beginners and intermediates in scrum.
For starters, I will introduce you to scrum, then walk you through the process of preparing for and conducting sprint planning sessions as part of an agile scrum team. As we go on with the class, I give practical examples and tips on how to improve planning in your team or business from the ground up. To give you just a glimpse of what you will learn, here is a quick summary:
✓Why we need plans and why do we need a sprint plan
✓Comparison of different forms of estimation e.g. Ideal days, story points etc.
✓How to overcome common impediments to planning
✓How to prepare for a sprint planning meeting
✓An overview of the sprint planning meeting
✓Artifacts needed for planning
✓How to create a sprint goal
✓How to use velocity in planning
✓How to commit to the goal using capacity driven or velocity driven planning
✓Tips to improve your sprint planning meetings
So let’s get started and let me help you to master agile estimating &sprint planning with scrum.
Introduction
Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, “Kanban: The KanbanGuide 2nd Edition: For the Business, Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Support Team”.
Creating the most efficient system for your business, development team, support team or any other organisation can often be a game of trial an error. We spend years aiming to create efficient practices which meet the demands of our customers as quickly as possible without overspending our effort, time or money. Imagine if there was a system that helped optimise the effort of our teams to meet the demands of our customers.
In this book, you will learn how the Kanban system can do this, and I explain:
•What Kanban is and where it originates from
•How it can make your team more efficient
•How to implement Kanban in your team or organisation
•Exercises to plan a Kanban System for your team or organization
•An overview of Scrum-ban - a technique used for combing the Scrum framework with Kanban especially for project based environments
•A brief overview of Agile Scrum
When you have read this guide, you will have an excellent foundation in thispopular system, and a great basis for helping others to understand the same.
