GW2 Agile Planning

Agile Planning

Agile Planning is a gamified, consensus based, technique used to estimate the effort necessary to complete goals in software development. This is done for each item in the backlog that is scheduled for the sprint. This works best with the engineers and stakeholders involved.

To play:

1. You describe the work involved.
2. Teammates ask questions or provide feedback to further understand the goal.
3. Each person discreetly selects a card representing the amount of effort they think it will take.
4. At the same time, everyone reveals their cards.
5. Those with the highest and lowest values justify their selections, and the group discusses the results.
6. This continues until everyone chooses the same value.

Effort

Effort is a Fibonacci sequence representing the amount of effort something needs to be called done and are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 50, 100. This is determined by each team themselves.