Q: As a Product Owner, you need to add estimates to your Backlog items. You have a small team and a large number of Product Backlog items. Which effort estimation technique should you use based on the team size and amount of tasks?
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Q: You must add estimates to the items in your backlog as a product owner. There are a lot of Product Backlog items and a tiny crew. Considering the number of jobs and team size, which method of effort estimate should you employ?
- Ordering Method
- The Bucket System
- Affinity Mapping
- Planning Poker™
Explanation: In situations when there are a significant number of Product Backlog items and a small team, the Planning PokerTM approach is often an appropriate option for estimating the amount of labor required. Planning PokerTM is a strategy that is based on reaching a consensus, in which members of a team utilize cards that have numerical values to estimate the relative amount of work or complexity required to complete a job.
Because it requires active engagement from every member of the team in the estimating process, this method is especially helpful when you have a small team. Through the facilitation of conversation and cooperation, it enables members of the team to offer their opinions and ideas about the level of difficulty associated with each item on the backlog.
Affinity Mapping, the Bucket System, and the Ordering Method are all methods that place a greater emphasis on the priority and grouping of jobs, rather than on giving estimations of the amount of labor required. Planning PokerTM is a tool that is often used in Agile and Scrum settings. It was developed expressly to predict the amount of work that would be required.
