User Story-Writing Workshop and Affinity Estimates

When starting a new software product, I like to run a Story-Writing Workshop and then employ affinity estimates to story point the effort. 

Pro Tip: Show your team this dog grooming story pointing exercise to help them grep affinity estimates.

I created the following diagrams to depict how the story-writing workshop and affinity estimates can be played in concert. Note my modular design; the workshop and affinity estimates can be used independently or in combination.

Workshop and Dog Estimates.pdf

Comments

[Dawn McCaffrey]

Using the Dog Grooming is a great way to demonstrate Affinity Estimating. I've use it a lot. Before we begin I talk about affinity pointing and get deer in headlight stares. Then we play Dog Grooming and the team gets it. I get feedback like "This really helps understand Affinity Pointing." and "Thanks, this really helps!"