POINTS to KEEP in MIND DURING AGILE ESTIMATION – Planning Poker

1. All developers in the team should participate in planning poker.
2. Each person involved in estimation should be given a deck of cards at beginning of planning poker estimation meeting. Each card should have valid estimates. Cards can have serial number ( 1,2,3,4,5,..etc ) or Fibonacci numbers ( 1,2,3,5,8,13..etc) or Tshirt sizing ( S,M,L,XL,XLL )
3. Prepared card can be reused in other planning poker estimation meeting.
4. Product owner or business analyst or user story creator reads out user story.
5. Product owner or business analyst or user story creator answers any questions that developers asks.
6. There might be disagreement among estimators on user story points.So, people having such disagreements explain their points. Then estimators are asked to estimate again.

Agile SDLC consists of following stages :

1. Iteration -1 ( Select the project )
2. Iteration 0 ( Initiate the project )
3. Construction Iterations – Deliver working systems which meets changing needs of stakeholders
4. Release – Deploy Release into Production



Agile SDLC



I have worked on both Waterfall and Agile projects . Some benefits of being Agile are :

1. Better Productivity
2. Low Cost
3. Bring product or changes to product to market faster
4. High degree of customer satisfaction
6. Better visibilty to development process

Agile Manifesto

Agile Manifesto uncovers better way of developing software by doing it and helping others to do it. Through this work we value below :

1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

2. Working software over comprehensive documentation

3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

4. Responding to change over following a plan