These are the slides from my talk about the Team Estimation Game and Magic Estimation, given at Sep 23, 2011 at the AgileEE conference in Kiev, Ukraine
19. Team
Estimation
13 Game
8
5 S2
3 S1
2 S3
1
Round 2
20.
21. How much time do these animals need to move
100m in their natural environment?
(no more than 6 categories, please)
22. Rules
Round 1
All backlog items are available on a heap
First participant puts the top item on the table
Second participant puts the second item above/below/next to the first one
From now on an item may be moved instead of placing a new one
Round 2
All participants look at the result. Each participant is entitled to move items with a short
explanation
23. Debrief
Team Estimation Game
•Estimate stories in relation to each other
•At the beginning there are no story points
involved
•Find a base first, then go from there
•Discuss afterwards
•Much faster than Planning Poker
28. How much time do these animals need to move
100m in their natural environment?
(no more than 6 categories, please)
29. Rules
Round 1 (Silencio)
Each participant gets a few items from the backlog and puts them next to the provided sizes
Round 2
All participants look at the result. Each participant is entitled to move items with a short
explanation
30. Debrief
Magic Estimation
•Estimate in parallel, not sequentially
•Find a base first, then go from there
•Discuss afterwards
•Much faster than Planning Poker
31. ‘Whenever there is a hard
job to be done I assign it to
a lazy man; he is sure to find
an easy way of doing it.’
Walter Chrysler
32. Get in touch
Sven Röpstorff
Agile Project Manager & Coach
sven@agiletransparency.com
Twitter: @oedel
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Team Estimation Game
http://www.projekt-log.de/en/allgemein/team-estimation-game/
Team Estimation Game with distributed Teams
http://www.projekt-log.de/en/allgemein/team-estimation-game-mit-
verteilten-teams/