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By Mike Cohn

<h3>Praise for Agile Estimating and Planning </h3>
"Traditional, deterministic ways to making plans and estimating easily don't reduce it at the slippery slopes of today's dynamic, change-driven initiatives. Mike Cohn's leap forward booklet provides us not just the philosophy, but additionally the tips and a confirmed set of instruments that we have to achieve making plans, estimating, and scheduling tasks with a excessive uncertainty issue. even as, the writer by no means loses sight of the necessity to convey company price to the buyer each one step of the way."

—Doug DeCarlo, writer of eXtreme venture administration: utilizing management, rules and instruments to bring worth within the Face of Volatility (Jossey-Bass, 2004)

"We understand how to construct predictive plans and deal with them. yet construction plans that merely estimate the long run after which embody switch, problem so much of our education and abilities. In Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn once more fills a gap within the Agile practices, this time via exhibiting us a manageable method of Agile estimating and making plans. Mike delves into the nooks and crannies of the topic and anticipates the various questions and nuances of this subject. scholars of Agile tactics will realize that this ebook is actually approximately agility, bridging a number of the practices among Scrum and ExtremeProgramming."

—Ken Schwaber, Scrum evangelist, Agile Alliance cofounder, and signatory to the Agile Manifesto

"In Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn has, for the 1st time, introduced jointly such a lot every thing that the Agile group has discovered in regards to the topic. The e-book is apparent, good prepared, and a delightful and useful learn. It is going into all of the worthy aspect, and while retains the reader's burden low. we will be able to dig in as deeply as we have to, with out an excessive amount of element sooner than we'd like it. The e-book particularly brings jointly every little thing we've got realized approximately Agile estimation and making plans over the last decade. it is going to serve its readers well."

—Ron Jeffries, www.XProgramming.com, writer of Extreme Programming put in (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Extreme Programming Adventures in C# (Microsoft Press, 2004)

" Agile Estimating and Planning offers a view of making plans that's balanced among concept and perform, and it truly is supported through sufficient concrete reviews to lend it credibility. I really just like the quote 'planning is a quest for value.' It issues to a brand new, extra confident angle towards making plans that is going past the 'necessary evil' view that I occasionally hold."

—Kent Beck, writer of Extreme Programming defined, moment Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2005)

"Up-front making plans remains to be the main serious a part of software program improvement. Agile software program improvement calls for Agile making plans ideas. This e-book exhibits you the way to hire Agile making plans in a succinct, useful, and easy-to-follow manner."

—Adam Rogers, final software program

"Mike does an excellent follow-up to User tales utilized by carrying on with to supply Agile groups with the sensible ways and methods to extend agility. during this ebook, Mike presents time-proven and well-tested tools for being profitable with the a number of degrees of making plans and estimating required by means of Agile. This ebook is the 1st to aspect the disciplines of Agile estimating and making plans, in ways in which rival my 1980 civil engineering texts on CPM making plans and Estimating."

—Ryan Martens, President and Founder, Rally software program improvement Corporation

"With perception and readability, Mike Cohn indicates easy methods to successfully produce software program of excessive enterprise worth. With Agile estimation and making plans, you concentration attempt the place it particularly counts, and proceed to take action as conditions change."

—Rick Mugridge, Rimu examine Ltd., and lead writer, Fit for constructing Software (Prentice corridor, 2005)

"Finally! The groundbreaking ebook my consumers were clamoring for! Agile Estimating and Planning demystifies the method of defining, using, and offering nice software program that concerns to the enterprise. Mike's readability, perception, and event jump out via each web page of this booklet, delivering an procedure that's correct and instantly valuable to all individuals of an Agile project."

—Kert D. Peterson, President, company Agile workforce, LLC

"This isn't yet one more conventional publication on Agile software program improvement. Agile Estimating and Planning fills a spot left via many of the different books and offers you very important, functional, down-to-earth thoughts had to be profitable on Agile improvement projects."

—Steve Tockey, important advisor, Construx software program

"Estimation, making plans, and monitoring is a trinity. in the event you don't do one in all them, you don't desire the opposite . This publication presents very sensible wisdom for estimation, making plans, prioritizing, and monitoring. it may be obligatory material for venture managers and their groups, no matter if they hesitate to name themselves Agile."

—Niels Malotaux, venture Coach

"Effective making plans is a vital, yet frequently misunderstood, a part of any winning Agile undertaking. With Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn has given us a definitive advisor to quite a lot of Agile estimating and making plans practices. together with his transparent and functional sort, Mike not just explains find out how to effectively start making plans an Agile venture, but additionally presents a wealth of counsel and suggestion for making improvements to any team's Agile making plans technique. This e-book is a must-read for managers, coaches, and participants of Agile teams."

—Paul Hodgetts, Agile trainer and CEO, Agile common sense

"Mike's writing kind captures the essence of agility-just the correct quantity of data to deliver readability to the reader. This publication presents a great advisor for all Agile practitioners, either pro and novice."

—Robert Holler, President and CEO, VersionOne, LLC

"It is as though Mike took the distilled wisdom concerning making plans and estimation of an exceptional Agile developer (which he's) and laid out all he is familiar with in an simply comprehensible demeanour. extra importantly, he has an exceptional mixture of options with real-world examples accomplished off with a case learn so the reader can relate the data to their very own state of affairs. until you're already knowledgeable Agile planner and estimator, this booklet is for you."

—Alan Shalloway, CEO, Senior advisor, internet targets, and coauthor of Design styles defined, moment Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2005)

"Although I had lots of XP adventure sooner than checking out Mike Cohn's Agile making plans practices, the effectiveness of the sensible and confirmed thoughts during this booklet blew me away! The booklet acknowledges that individuals, no longer instruments or procedures, produce nice software program, and that groups profit such a lot by way of studying approximately their undertaking and their product as they move. The examples within the booklet are concrete, simply grasped, and easily reek of good judgment. This ebook might help groups (whether Agile or no longer) carry extra price, extra frequently, and feature enjoyable doing it! even if you're a supervisor or a programmer, a tester or a CEO, a part of an Agile staff, or simply trying to find the way to stamp out chaos and dying marches, this e-book will consultant you."

—Lisa Crispin, coauthor of Testing severe Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2003)

"Mike Cohn does an outstanding activity demonstrating how an Agile strategy can deal with problems with chance and uncertainty with the intention to offer extra significant estimates and plans for software program projects."

—Todd Little, Senior improvement supervisor, Landmark photos

"Mike Cohn explains his method of Agile making plans, and exhibits how 'critical chain' pondering can be utilized to successfully buffer either time table and lines. As with User tales Applied, this booklet is straightforward to learn and level-headed in real-world experience."

—Bill Wake, writer of Refactoring Workbook (Addison-Wesley, 2003)

"Mike brings this publication to lifestyles with real-world examples that aid display how and why an Agile technique works for making plans software program improvement tasks. This booklet has nice breadth, starting from the basics of free up making plans to complex subject matters corresponding to monetary elements of prioritization. i will see this e-book changing into a useful relief to Agile undertaking managers, because it offers a wealth of functional assistance equivalent to how one can set new release size and boot-strap pace, and converse progress."

—Rachel Davies, self reliant advisor

"There has been a necessity for a great, pragmatic ebook at the long term imaginative and prescient of an Agile undertaking for undertaking managers. Agile Estimating and Planning addresses this desire. It's no longer theory—this ebook comprises project-tested practices which have been used on Agile tasks. As Mike's try out topics, we utilized those practices to the improvement of games (one of the main unpredictable undertaking environments you could think) with success."

—Clinton Keith, leader Technical Officer, excessive Moon Studios

"When I first heard Mike Cohn communicate, i used to be inspired via a unprecedented mix of features: deep adventure and knowing in sleek iterative and Agile equipment; a force to discover and validate effortless, high-impact strategies past the established order of conventional (usually useless) equipment; and the fervour and readability of a ordinary trainer. those features are obvious during this tremendous, sensible consultant. I estimate you won't be dissatisfied in learning and making use of his advice."

—Craig Larman, leader Scientist, Valtech, and writer of Applying UML and styles, 3rd Edition (Prentice corridor, 2005) and Agile and Iterative Development (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

" Agile Estimating and Planning is a serious advisor on easy methods to effectively supply price to clients of IT companies. This e-book is stuffed with transparent ...