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The Professional Scrum Master Guide

You're reading from   The Professional Scrum Master Guide The unofficial guide to Scrum with real-world projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205567
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fred Heath Fred Heath
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:The Scrum Framework
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Scrum FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Scrum Theory and Principles 4. Chapter 3: The Scrum Team 5. Chapter 4: Scrum Events 6. Chapter 5: Scrum Artifacts 7. Section 2:Scrum in Action
8. Chapter 6: Planning and Estimating with Scrum 9. Chapter 7: The Sprint Journey 10. Chapter 8: Facets of Scrum 11. Section 3:The PSM Certification
12. Chapter 9: Preparing for the PSM I Assessment 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy 15. Index

Managing the art of estimation

Estimation is an essential part of software development and project management. Some people call it a necessary evil. I don't know about the evil part, but I certainly agree with the necessary part. The Scrum Guide doesn't say anything about how to estimate the items in our Product Backlog. However, the industry has adopted some techniques that we will discuss in the following sections. But first, let's examine why estimation is so important. Having estimates allows the Scrum Team to do the following:

  • Prioritize items in the Product Backlog: This happens as part of the Backlog refinement process, which we talked about in Chapter 5, Scrum Artifacts. There are many ways to prioritize the items in the Product Backlog, and effort or size estimates are one way to do so.
  • Choose which items to place in the Sprint Backlog: This happens during the Sprint planning event, as described in Chapter 4, Scrum Events. If we can't estimate...
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