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This month, Tim Leslie will be giving a talk on Effective Estimation in an Agile Environment. After the talk, we will continue with lean coffee and other group-style activities along with networking.
Courtesy of Modulr, there will be pizza, beer and other software drinks available.
Talk description
There are few questions more scary than "how long will it take?". Some teams seem to miss every deadline by miles. Others have given up and work without estimates, incorrectly rejecting them as a relic of waterfall mentality. Most destructive of all, the question has the power to rip teams apart - driving a wedge between the project manager and engineers. The engineers seeing it as a cynical "motivational" tool - the crack of the whip - while the Project Manager loses faith in the competence or even trustworthiness of the engineering team as they continuously miss commitments.
It doesn't have to be this way. I've now worked for two companies where we have been able to reliably predict pr...
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This month, Tim Leslie will be giving a talk on Effective Estimation in an Agile Environment. After the talk, we will continue with lean coffee and other group-style activities along with networking.
Courtesy of Modulr, there will be pizza, beer and other software drinks available.
Talk description
There are few questions more scary than "how long will it take?". Some teams seem to miss every deadline by miles. Others have given up and work without estimates, incorrectly rejecting them as a relic of waterfall mentality. Most destructive of all, the question has the power to rip teams apart - driving a wedge between the project manager and engineers. The engineers seeing it as a cynical "motivational" tool - the crack of the whip - while the Project Manager loses faith in the competence or even trustworthiness of the engineering team as they continuously miss commitments.
It doesn't have to be this way. I've now worked for two companies where we have been able to reliably predict pr...