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Fred Heath is a freelance developer and consultant based in Wales, UK. Over the last 20 years, he's worked at every stage of the software development life cycle using a variety of languages and platforms and ended up falling in love with Ruby and its ecosystem. Fred enjoys solving tricky problems, FOSS, meta programming, Behavior-Driven Development, and Agile processes. He also frequently writes online and speaks at conferences about Ruby, software development, and best practices. Fred is always happy to hear from you and chat about Ruby and Rails on Twitter.
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Managing the art of estimation

Estimation is an essential part of software development and project management. Some people call it a necessary evil. I don't know about the evil part, but I certainly agree with the necessary part. The Scrum Guide doesn't say anything about how to estimate the items in our Product Backlog. However, the industry has adopted some techniques that we will discuss in the following sections. But first, let's examine why estimation is so important. Having estimates allows the Scrum Team to do the following:

  • Prioritize items in the Product Backlog: This happens as part of the Backlog refinement process, which we talked about in Chapter 5, Scrum Artifacts. There are many ways to prioritize the items in the Product Backlog, and effort or size estimates are one way to do so.
  • Choose which items to place in the Sprint Backlog: This happens during the Sprint planning event, as described in Chapter 4, Scrum Events. If we can't estimate...
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Fred Heath is a freelance developer and consultant based in Wales, UK. Over the last 20 years, he's worked at every stage of the software development life cycle using a variety of languages and platforms and ended up falling in love with Ruby and its ecosystem. Fred enjoys solving tricky problems, FOSS, meta programming, Behavior-Driven Development, and Agile processes. He also frequently writes online and speaks at conferences about Ruby, software development, and best practices. Fred is always happy to hear from you and chat about Ruby and Rails on Twitter.
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