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Agile Estimating and Planning
Friday, June 28
One of the most important aspects of agile development is estimating and planning. Yes, this is important even for agile software development. Although agile is a fluid and iterative process, that doesn’t mean that planning doesn’t have a place in its programming and project management.
Course Description
This one-day course is designed to show students how to break the cycle of useless or bad project plans by learning and practicing skills that will help create useful plans for reliable decision-making. Students will gain a solid understanding of and experience at Agile release planning and iteration planning. During the course, various approaches to estimating including unit-less points and ideal time will be discussed. The course will describe four techniques for deriving estimates including how to use the popular Planning Poker® technique. We will look at techniques to create a plan that dramatically improves the project's chances of on-time completion.
Prerequisite: Understanding of Agile Methodology
Who Should Attend
Agile Estimating and Planning is designed for anyone whose responsibilities include estimating and planning. If your teams view planning as something to be avoided, or your organization uses plans as something to hold against development teams, this popular estimating and planning course can help your company break both of those attitudes and cycles.
Penn State is a Project Management Institute (PMI®) Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.).
PMPs earn 7- Professional Development Units (PDUs)
This course is exclusively licensed from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software for the Philadelphia region. Mike has 15 years of experience with planning techniques on agile projects, and is the author of many publications on this subject.
Register online below or call 610-648-3274. Call 610-648-3281 for more information.
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Course Title
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Sessions
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Time
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Summer 2013
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| BUSAD 5818 |
Agile Estimating and Planning |
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2
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8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Friday, 6/28
$695 (includes continental breakfast and lunch)
Register online
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$25 per person discount for groups of three or more from same company.
NOTE: To receive the discount, group members must register by phone.
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