What is Planning Poker? Planning Poker is an agile estimating and planning technique that is consensus based. To start a poker planning session, the product owner or customer reads an agile user story or describes a feature to the estimators. Each estimator is holding a deck of Planning Poker cards with values like 0, 1, […]

The best way I’ve found for agile teams to estimate is by playing Planning Poker® (Grenning 2002). Planning Poker® estimating combines expert opinion, analogy, and disaggregation into an enjoyable approach to estimating that results in quick but reliable estimates. Participants in Planning Poker® include all of the developers on the team. Remember that developers refers […]