#1348 overall
Agile Estimating and Planning
Mountain Goat Software
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2011 · score 0.7
A two-day course by Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software covering agile approaches to estimating and planning software work, closely tied to his book of the same name.
One commenter says the Mike Cohn course on Agile Estimating and Planning (2 days) was worth taking, alongside his free presentations and book.
Recommendations by year
20062026
Here's what I use and recommend:
* Mike Cohn resources were the most helpful to me:
- free presentations around estimating and planning (eg: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations/131-agile-... and others on the same site)
- the "Agile Estimating and Planning" book (http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Estimating-Planning-Mike-Cohn/dp...)
- Mike Cohn "Agile Estimating and Planning" course (2 days) was worth taking
* Software estimation: demystifying the black art (http://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Pract...) is a very useful book too
* For lightweight project management tool: I use a mixture of Acunote (for estimating and burndown chart - I even generate my quotes out of it using Ruby and Prawn) and Freckle to monitor the time spent.
I tried many other tools (including Mingle, Pivotal, etc...) but Acunote is the only one that works well for us.