At a growing company, there is often a need to develop new teams in order to tackle new challenges. One such team, when it was first established in 2017, was made up of a newly promoted Engineering Manager, a fresh Project Manager, and two Engineers straight out of college. As a new team, they were free to establish their processes. So they set out to be the best Agile-practicing team they could be.

Their first planning meeting was an unmitigated disaster.

In the time since, the team has evolved from a team that could barely plan an iteration into a team that effectively uses Lean, Big Room Planning, and data-driven estimations like Monte Carlo simulations using historical JIRA data.

Join Courtney as she takes you through the team's journey towards agility. She will go over what went right, what went wrong, and how they fixed it, with a heavy emphasis on how the team learned to be effective at Big Room Planning and forecasting.