Estimation Techniques

Predict effort and complexity to aid sprint planning and delivery.

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Planning Poker

Team members assign story points independently, then discuss and align on estimate.

Planning Poker

Team members assign story points independently, then discuss and align on estimate.

Estimation techniques help product and engineering teams forecast the effort required to complete tasks or stories. Accurate estimates inform prioritization, capacity planning, and delivery timelines. Techniques vary from relative sizing like story points to time-based methods like t-shirt sizing or hours.

Estimation is collaborative and improves with experience and retrospectives.

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