QuestionQ288

Delivery

After completing three sprints, the product owner and sponsor request an accurate schedule showing when all releases will be delivered. What should the agile practitioner do?

  • A Calculate velocity based on completed sprints and triangulate the remaining work on the backlog to commit to an accurate schedule.
  • B Decompose the product backlog into user stories with tasks/acceptance criteria and estimate to commit to an accurate schedule.
  • C Use analogous estimating techniques based on projects with a similar velocity.
  • D Provide a delivery range based on the team's estimated velocity.
Explanation

Agile teams use empirical velocity to forecast likely delivery dates as a range because future work and delivery capacity contain uncertainty. An exact committed schedule is not supported by limited sprint history.

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