Forecasting
Forecasting in the Agile world asks the difficult questions: How much of our product backlog will ready by a certain date? or By which date a specific feature will be ready?
Many teams attempt to forecast by measuring their Product Backlog in Story Points and dividing by the average number of story points achieved per Sprint. This is rarely effective.
Agile Pain Relief Blog Entries
Resource Links
- Effective Forecasting: Estimation in Kanban
- Forecasting for beginners
- Forecasting Reality: The Power of Truth-Telling
- How to Make Commitments for New Teams using Probabilistic Forecasting
- Monte Python Simulation: Misunderstanding Monte Carlo
- Story Point Velocity or Throughput Forecasting - Does it matter?
- Talking about Sizing and Forecasting in Scrum
Red Yellow Green Status Reports and the lies they tell
Forecasting Tools
Related Books
- Forecasting using Data - a free eBook - Troy Magennis
- When Will it be Done - Dan Vacanti