"GOTO Copenhagen 2014 is designed for software developers, IT architects, agilists, product owners and project managers who want to go into depth with one or more subject areas e.g. Java, .Net, JavaScript, Web, Mobile, Cloud, Lean/Agile, and Architecture. Each training offers a chance to develop your skills and become more effective in your work. The conference includes 8-12 daily trainings. You can choose to sign up for just one training, a two-day-training, or join one training each day– it’s completely up to you! Our trainers are authors, experts and practitioners across various areas of software development so you get a chance to learn from and network with the best".
Jens Østergaard, TweetCo-founder of Scrum Foundation
Biography: Jens Østergaard
Jens Østergaard is a Scrum consultant who helps organizations understand the fundamentals of Scrum, argue that organizations should keep Scrum as pure as possible, until they fully understand the mechanism that drive product development forward.
Having more than 25 years of experience as developer, dba, team manager, project manager, ScrumMaster and Product Owner, primarily in financial organizations, he has worked with all aspects of software development. Jens has managed several Scrum projects, and became a fully qualified CST (Certified Scrum Trainer), in Copenhagen, 2004. Apart from consulting and training, Jens gives popular presentations about Scrum, at conferences and for organizations.
Jens holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis at Linköping University, Sweden, and one year at graduate school, business department, in Madison, Wisconsin.
Workshop: Scrum Estimation & Planning Tweet
Why do we plan? The reasoning behind planning is to find a way to predict how much time (read cost) it takes to build a product. If we can predict the total cost and the budgeted sale we can make a prediction of Return on Investment; we thereby have a solid basis for deciding whether or not to build the product.
So what happens if you build a product where prediction is unreliable, e.g. building a new medicine? Should we just give up and say we cannot predict? Well, we have to do something in order to get some kind of idea of the scope and time frame.
In this class we will discuss different ways of planning and different estimation techniques.
As this is a software conference, we will focus on the reasons behind building unpredictable software and how to handle the estimation challenges arising from this unpredictability.
The class makes use of a case study by which we will learn how to get from idea to product development and how to adapt to changes and new insights along the way.
Topics that will be covered:
* Envisioning a future product
* User Stories
* Splitting User Stories
* Build a Product Backlog
* Estimation, actual as well as relative
* Ordering
* Refinement
* ATDD
* Planning Poker
* Making a release Plan
* Story Mapping
* Agile Contracts
Prerequisites:
The course is aimed at all software professionals with an interest in estimation and planning of Scrum projects. No previous knowledge is required.
