Notes from the table.
Guides to planning poker and agile estimation, for new and seasoned teams.
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Budget for the retry: estimating AI agent tokens before you prompt
Why an AI agent's retries cost more each time, how to estimate a story's token budget with planning poker, and tripwires that stop a runaway task.
11 minPlanning poker when AI agents write the code
AI coding agents build fast but never ask questions. Why estimating together matters more now, and how to turn a planning poker round into an agent-ready spec.
9 minTimeboxing sprint planning: give every decision a clock
How to timebox sprint planning: three nested clocks, a minute-by-minute budget for a 90-minute meeting, and what to do when the time runs out.
7 minPlanning poker and team consensus: how to read a reveal
Consensus is not everyone agreeing. Six shapes a planning poker reveal takes, what each one means, and the one-step rule that ends the endless debate.
7 minCapacity planning for Scrum teams: a sprint budget you can actually spend
How to plan a sprint around the time your team really has: availability, focus and velocity, worked through one team's tricky sprint, step by step.
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