May 24, 2021
Third post on the chapter 23 of the book Agile Estimating and Planning, by Mike Cohn. In the previous post the Havannah team had written 32 user stories, totaling 146 story points.
In this post, team members are working on another project, while analyst Delanie start a market research performing a survey with potential customers. At the end of the two weeks, the team meets again with Carlos, the agile coach, to plan the first iteration and commit as a team to finish the stories with the most priority. As a result, the team commits to finish 4 stories, totaling 18 points.
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“So where do we go from here? We need one more two-week iteration on Deep Black & White before we send it to the publisher,” Frank said.
“While everyone else is working on that I’m going to interview some likely buyers of this game,” Delaney said. “I want to see what features are the most important.”
“Will that take long?”
“No, I’ll be done before the end of the iteration,” Delaney said. “Let’s meet again in two weeks, right after we ship Deep Black & White and after Frank takes us all out to celebrate finishing it.”
“Sounds great. I’ll get right on that celebration. Are hamburgers OK, Delaney? Or should we splurge for pizza?”