Agile Estimates Made EasyThe software Industry has adopted Agile development methods. It makes sense then to also use Agile methods to generate Software cost estimates.With the SEER-SEM Agile Planner, software estimates are created in minutes and ready for instant trade-off analysis. The CIO and CFO can nowhave critical cost information long before they need to make approval decisions.

✓ Quickly generate a Rough Order Magnitude (ROM) estimate

✓ Understand all project costs – including warranty and ongoing support!

✓ Estimate overall effort and schedule, number of sprints, and even optimal team sizes

✓ Understand likely team productivity across multiple teams

✓ Perform instant trade studies for project risks and uncertainties

SEER-SEM with the Agile Planner serves both, the PMO/CIO level needs for accountability to shareholders and stakeholders, as well as theDevelopment Team’s sprint planning needs, ensuring the best use of budgets and resources.

Whether you are looking for a ROM or wanting to get into the specifics. The Agile planner allows you perform High Level Backlog Planning estimatesare well as Detailed Sprint estimates, including Sprint 0 planning and back-end System Integration.

Build an estimate based on your team(s) characteristics

If you know your team size and sprint timebox, let the Agile Planner estimate the number of sprints it will take you to consume your backlog. Or evenbetter, let the Agile Planner calculate an optimal team size to maximize the effort/duration tradeoff.

Not sure about your velocity?

The Agile Planner will use industry productivity metrics to compute velocity; this is especially helpful for new teams, technologies, projects or anysituation where velocity metrics have not been measured. And if you do know your velocity, that can be incorporated as part of the planningprocess.

You want an Agile estimate and you want it now?

1.Simply plug the Knowledge Bases

2. Enter

projected Backlog Size range. Any volume measure can be used: StoryPoints, Use Cases, RICEFW, etc.

3.Enter Agile Deployment options

4.Review instant feedback for the cost, effort, schedule and numerous additional metrics. For example: Velocity calculations are generated

using ISO Standard volume metric and can be used across team boundaries.

Trade studies made easyWhat happens if I add a team? Increase team size? Change sprint duration?

The Agile Planner will provide quick feedback on all these situations and let willlet you rapidly evaluate all these possibilities, even before committing to plan.

Can I use the SEER-SEM Agile Planner to benchmark my teams?

The benefit of using SEER-SEM with the Agile Planner is that all your teams and velocities will have underpinnings in standardized software sizemetrics. Teams can still use their established stories, but the SEER-SEM based estimates will result in collected metrics that will let you compareprojects and teams over time.

Can I use theSEER-SEM AgilePlanner tounderstand thebacklog planning

effort?

The Agile Planner will provide detailed activity and labor distribution estimates for the entire software life cycle. The SDLC can be tailored to matchan organizational naming schema and distribution of labor across all activities.

Can I usethe SEER-SEM Agile

Planner to generate Sprint Estimates?

The Agile Planner will provide a detailed Sprint Planning estimate to ensure work volume is properly distributed across all releases. While mostAgile teams use specific Agile management tools they do not enforce software productivity laws. Simply put, SEER-SEM Agile Planner usesparametric modeling techniques to identify what is possible to achieve in a sprint.