Juan Silva
Development Lead and Solutions Architect
Industrial Agency
location_on Canada
Member since 7 years
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Juan Silva is a seasoned technical project and product manager. He has been a key role player in several start-up companies and has participated as a consultant for an other number of enterprises in Canada and USA.
Since completing his doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa he has been managing agile teams for the last 7 years. His experience goes from start-up product companies to mature enterprise software as well as the professional services industry.
During this time he has played roles as Senior Developer, Technical Lead, Scrum Master, and Product Owner and Product Manager.
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Agile Estimation: The battle between Points and Hours in a services agency world
45 Mins
Talk
Beginner
When you learn about agile practices, one of the most challenging concepts to grasp is Story Point Estimation. This is particularly true for service companies that normally bill clients by the hour.
On the one hand, they need to submit project proposals that are based on concrete time estimates.
Story points, on the other hand, are an abstract concept by design. They were born out of the needs of product companies with the purpose of having a better assessment of the amount of work involved in developing software units, regardless of how long each unit takes. This makes people struggle between using points and hours. You want to reap the benefits of point estimates, but you still want to keep things tied to time.
In this session, I will introduce the notion of point estimates, highlighting its advantages over hour estimation. Then I will explain one approach to doing point estimation in a professional services company. I will address common concern from various stakeholders from Project Management to Business Development, COOs and CEOs.
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