Planning your build phase
In a pure agile delivery methodology, the team plans their work continuously – either in sprint planning (Scrum) or by simply starting new work when new user stories meet the definition of ready and there is the capacity for it to be picked up (Kanban).
However, having chosen a form of hybrid agile delivery methodology, you’ll likely want to have some indication of the estimated duration of the build phase – both for budgeting and roll-out planning purposes.
In this section, we’ll discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of estimating development effort and how you can plan development.
Let’s look at two methods of estimating effort:
