article thumbnail

How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile OnĀ Evidence

Scrum.org

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first? So where do you find it?

Agile 187
article thumbnail

Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a projectā€™s outcome; it is to determine whether a projectā€™s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ā€’ Steve McConnell. Better Sure than Safe?

article thumbnail

Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,ā€ Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Chakraborty and K.