Your development team uses the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development 6.0 process template.
You need to determine the process to obtain the most accurate estimates for each user story in your product backlog.
What should you do?
A. Have the development team estimate and use the longest estimates.
B. Ask the product owner to provide the estimates.
C. Ask the scrum master to provide estimates.
D. Have the development team estimate until team members reach consensus.
Correct Answer: D
Explanation/Reference:
Planning poker, also called Scrum poker, is a consensus-based technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of development goals in software development.
In planning poker, each team member has index cards with 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 printed on them. One team member (preferably the customer or product owner) kicks off a discussion of a feature, and the whole team asks questions and normalizes on the scope and breadth of the feature. When the conversation is complete, a vote is taken: all team members hold up an index card with their estimate on it. It’s important for everyone to do it at the same time so they aren’t influenced by their peers. If everyone holds up cards with the same number, the estimate is official, and you record it. If you don’t have consensus, you investigate why.
Reference: Planning poker; Estimating with Story Points
