Poker planning is an agile estimating and planning exercise that uses Planning Poker cards for consensus-based estimating in Scrum.
What Is Planning Poker? Planning poker is a planning andestimation techniqueused byAgile teamsafter aproduct backloghas been created. The setup of this technique helps software teams accurately estimate product development time frames, improve collaboration, and strategize the work to be done. ...
In my previous article, we have discussed what is Agile Story Point Estimation. In this article, we will learn how to estimate story points using "Planning Poker" cards.Planning Poker is a relative estimation technique used by teams to estimate the user story.Before starting, the planning ...
Planning poker, also called Scrum 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,...
In agile teams, planning should be a group activity where all the members of the team come together to decide the amount of work that they can likely commit to in the next sprint. A fun way to do this is Planning Poker, a consensus-based gamified estimating technique. Each member holds ...
One way the team does this is planning poker. The setup Each team member has a deck of cards with valid estimation numbers on each card. Usually the Scrum Master moderates the session. When the team can’t be in the same room to use cards, the team will agree on the point scale ...
Planning poker is a game-based technique applied by agile teams to empower all team members to jointly estimate and reach a consensus about the predicted effort. This paper presents results from two studies on learning agile estimation in which student teams were supported by the humanoid robot ...
When the tasks are sorted, it’s time to estimate. I use the planning poker technique for task estimation, with one difference: The numbers on the cards represent hours instead of points. I do this because people tend to get too hung up on needless details with regards to hours, especiall...
The good news is that there’s a better way to estimate the time it takes for Agile planning: story point estimation. Downsides of other time estimation methods in Agile projects Before we get into the value of story point estimation, let’s consider other time estimation methods used in Agi...