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The team lead or SCRUM Master prepares the agenda for the meeting and selects items from the backlog. A planning session takes about 30 minutes to complete.
Create a room, invite your colleagues and start planning your next sprint. No need to create an account and it's all free to use.
Set up T-shirt sizing, Fibonacci values or all kinds of custom combinations as voting options. Measure team velocity with automatically collected historical data.
Join with an unlimited number of voters and find consensus on your tickets or issues. The app will show averages and highlight edge cases amongst the votes.
Install the Planning Poker embedded app to enjoy the same great planning experience without leaving your video meeting. Available for all major video conferencing tools for free.
Express your thoughts and opinions on each topic, without having to interrupt the meeting. Improve meeting participation and engagement, and make planning poker more fun and enjoyable for everyone involved.
Asynchronous planning meetings help teams plan more efficiently by allowing participants to prepare for and vote on topics at their own pace, before meeting to discuss the results and make decisions.
Our Jira integration helps you spend less time preparing for your meeting: just select tickets from your Jira backlog with our seamless integration. After voting, the average estimate can be saved back to the corresponding Jira issue, keeping everything up-to-date and eliminating manual entry.
Our new Linear integration lets you search and add Linear issues directly to your planning poker sessions. Once everyone votes, the majority vote can be saved back to the corresponding issue in Linear. This keeps your estimates up-to-date and saves you the hassle of manual entry.
Create private rooms protected by a password and adjust room permissions to your preferences. Manage your organization with unlimited members.
Our newest employee is here to help with your planning sessions. Once your planning session is over, PokerBot will create a summary of the events, votes and highlights of your meeting. Send it to your team for a motivated sprint!
The team lead or SCRUM Master prepares the agenda for the meeting and selects items from the backlog. A planning session takes about 30 minutes to complete.
Planning poker, also called SCRUM poker or pointing poker, is a consensus-based, gamified technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of development goals in software development.
In planning poker, members of the group make estimates by playing numbered cards face-down to the table, instead of speaking them aloud. The cards are revealed, and the estimates are then discussed. By hiding the figures in this way, the group can avoid the cognitive bias of anchoring, where the first number spoken aloud sets a precedent for subsequent estimates.
When played online, members are together in a real-time estimation "room" or "session" and their cards are displayed on the screen. The same rules apply, but everything is more convenient and automated.
A planning poker session is usually around 30 minutes, and is lead by a SCRUM master or team-lead. The game allows each member to contribute to project planning and encourages lively discussions.
The game can be played with different card sets which denote story points or developer hours, depending on the team's taste. Card sets can be configured when the game starts.
This is a free, open-source application developed as a hobby project. It is running on Google Cloud servers hosted in the EU. The app is free to use with monthly credits that can be refilled if you use the app often.
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