Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Estimation, Planning, and Forecasting. These skills are not part of the Scrum Guide and are not essential for passing level I assessments. However, they are skills that all Scrum Masters should possess to fully comprehend the product life cycle and to best be able to provide leadership and coaching to the Scrum Team.

So, we learned how to estimate with story points by playing Planning Poker or using estimation buckets and the different ways we can tweak these methods to our needs and circumstances. We also learned how to create a product roadmap and how the roadmap helps us with formulating our Product Backlog and grouping our work into themes and capabilities (or epics).

Finally, we learned how to measure and monitor our progress and forecast our future work using velocity and burn charts. In the next chapter, we’ll discuss how to manage the work that takes place within the Sprint. See you there!