The planning fallacy leads us to underestimate how much time it will take us to complete tasks. To avoid the problem, adopt one of these estimation techniques.

Poker planning is an agile estimating and planning exercise that uses Planning Poker cards for consensus-based estimating in Scrum.

Some agile teams estimate using a fixed set of values based on the Fibonacci sequence. Learn the science behind this approach and why it works so well.

Estimate inflation is when the estimate assigned to a product backlog item (usually a user story) increases over time. Triangulating prevents this.

Business justification is first assessed prior to a project being initiated and is continuously verified throughout the project lifecycle. This is a very i...