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Better Project Forecasts without Estimates – The Monte Carlo
Summary
Adrian Fittolani introduces the Monte Carlo Simulation, an empirical mathematical method used to estimate project timelines.
Bio
Adrian Fittolani is a father, a runner, a developer, a guitarist, a handyman, a speaker, a sports coach, a dressmaker, a husband, a mechanic, a trainer and the Program Director at Envato. He considers himself to be good at only three of these things. A different three, depending on the week. He has a 16 years career in software, and is a member of Melbourne’s tech and agile community.
About the conference
Bringing together technology leaders from across Australia, the Agile Australia 2016 audience is a mixture of project and team leaders, coaches, software developers, testers, business analysts and the executive managers from the biggest enterprises to the youngest startups.
Community comments
There is a way to estimate the number of stories for your new project
by Dimitar Bakardzhiev,
Spreadsheet Link
by Adrian Fittolani,
There is a way to estimate the number of stories for your new project
by Dimitar Bakardzhiev,
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Adrian,
You advised the audiernce to consider that number of stories are input to Monte Carlo simulation.
In this InfoQ article www.infoq.com/articles/probabilistic-project-si... I present how to forecast the number of stories for your project.
Cheers,
Dimitar
Spreadsheet Link
by Adrian Fittolani,
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From Adrian (the presenter) - Here's a link to the written accompaniment to this talk. It contains access to the spreadsheet I mention for you to copy and try for yourself.
scrumage.com/blog/2015/09/agile-project-forecas...