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The Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment
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Summary
Chris Chapman teaches delivering software without estimates through the Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment, asking the participants to collaboratively build a jigsaw puzzle.
Bio
Chris R. Chapman is the President and Founder of Derailleur Consulting, Inc., a one-man consultancy in Toronto, Ontario dedicated to helping realign the work software teams do with how they do it using agile and lean practices. He’s a Certified Scrum Master, a Professional Scrum Master I and a Professional Scrum Product Owner I, designations received under the mentoring of Ken Schwaber.
About the conference
SDEC is an annual conference hosted by Protegra where industry professionals share their own real-world experiences gained through delivering solutions.
Apr 02, 2014
Community comments
Did I miss something?
by Johnny FromCanada,
Did I miss something?
by Johnny FromCanada,
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This "experiment" seems to conflate capacity planning (estimation vs. no estimates) with methodology (Scrum vs. mob/flow), which would otherwise be an orthogonal decision.
Part of the problem is that the video does not clearly reveal the instructions given to each team. In particular, where estimation was and was not occurring.
Perhaps there are links to other resources so that folks can read up on the purpose, setup, execution, and postmortem of running such a session?