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Jeff DaltonGreat Big Agilehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4206-3_64

64. Team Estimation Game

Jeff Dalton1 
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Waterford, MI, USA
 

Description

The Team Estimating Game (sometimes called the Fibonacci Team Estimating Game) is an agile estimation technique that establishes relative sizing using story points and a rough order of magnitude estimation. Planning Poker is a similar technique that uses playing cards to depict story points.

This agile technique tries to solve the estimation problem by using an estimating game to size backlog items relative to one another. The relative size of a backlog item is intentionally disconnected from effort in hours to encourage the team to think in a different way. “Roughly right” versus “accurately ...

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