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Succeeding with Agile
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Succeeding with Agile

by Mike Cohn
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Feed Them Two Pizzas

I was working on a project for a bioinformatics company when the CEO asked me to provide her with an estimate of how long the project would take. The application was large, the domain complicated, and the team mostly new. Because the domain was so complicated, our team was made up of some very smart Ph.D. scientists, who knew only a little about programming, and some very smart programmers, most of whom had taken no more than a class or two in biology or genetics. No one on the team was great at both the science and the development.

After a bit of research and work with the team I returned to the CEO with an estimate of something like 100 person-years. In other words, if we used all 40 people on the team, we could finish ...

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