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2. Gathering Requirements: Knowing what ... > Finally, you’re ready to estimate th...

Finally, you’re ready to estimate the whole project...

You’ve got short, focused user stories, and you’ve played planning poker on each story. You’ve dealt with all the assumptions that you and your team were making in your estimates, and now you have a set of estimates that you all believe in. It’s time to get back to the customer with your total project estimate...

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You’ve got an estimate for each story now.

Add an estimate to each user story for how long you think it will take to develop that functionality.

Add up all the estimates to get a total estimate for how long your project will take to deliver the required software.

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Now you can get a total estimate.

And the total project estimate is...

Add up the each of the converged estimates for your user stories, and you will find the total duration for your project, if you were to develop everything the customer wants.


  

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