I am very new to using Agile (scrum). we have planned sprints using story points, but have not assigned work (tasks) to all the user stories in the project, just in the sprint coming up. My boss wants to know how much work is left to do...and I don't know because I haven't planned those sprints. Can anyone give me advice or a resource to reference on what I need to do in order to provide him with what he needs?
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You can't because if you have a new project and/or new team, you have no known velocity. After a few sprints you will be able to say something like "The team can do 35 points per sprint". Then you will be able to approximate how many sprints it will take to accomplish the entire backlog or how long it will take to get to a particular story.
You do have your first impediment already though. Your boss obviously does not understand scrum or hasn't bought into the agile philosophy if he is asking that question before you even start.
Even after you get going you don't give estimates in hours for future iterations. You use story points (based on you past experience) because hour units are way to precise for anything other than the current sprint.
DancesWithBamboo
2010-03-31 22:19:48
We have estimated the story points, and estimated the velocity of 8 story points per sprint. We have estimated 4 sprints, with 2 sprints for a future release. I guess he wants a burn down chart of remaining story points, but the out of the box reports/excel sheets in VS 2010 use tasks (work) per the sprint, not the project. I agree with your points. Thanks.
Marsharks
2010-03-31 22:36:19
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If you are using TFS there are a number of (Reporting Services) reports that come out of the box, not sure if they include exactly what you want, but there is also the option of creating your own.
Not sure how good these links are, but they should give you some more to google on.
Paul Rowland
2010-03-31 22:58:41
All the reports are good for the sprint, however, I was looking for a way to use those same type of reports bases on story points. The remaining work report might do it. I will have to customize it. Thanks for the links.
Marsharks
2010-04-01 14:28:13