Today we had our iteration planning session for Elaboration 2 Iteration 1. We have also acquired some new members to the team and project in general. The session went very well, we started using planning poker cards. As many of the members are new to the process it will take a while for a few key concepts to sink in, such as points not equating to man days, trying to understand that the point estimation is an independent process and team members should not concur or reveal their points before everyone does it as a group as this can influence other people's decision. I guess with more practice these things will become second nature.
In the session we managed to estimate points for and discuss the stories and then futher break those stories into tasks assigning effort in terms of time and associating owners.
Generally the morale of the project has gone up, people are understanding and participating in the process and will start to see the fun side to it the more we do it.
I do need to find a good analogy for the points not equating to man days problem.
Here are some statistics from the session:
- 9 Members & 121.5 man days
- 34 points
- 47.25 days to burn
- 45% focus factor
- 7 stories to complete
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