Planning Poker Overview

Overview

Estimating with planning poker has 3 steps:

1. Voting - participants enter their estimation without seeing estimations from other users.
2. Review - votes are visible to everyone and application suggests estimation value that can be written to the board.
3. Writing estimation to the board.

Video content:

• overview
• installation steps
• add three participants
• selecting Backlog group for estimation with board filter
• estimation session:
  • real time updates when team is estimating (as seen by James)
  • manual review and write to board steps
  • automatic review and write to board

Features

Distributed, asynchronous and co-located estimations

• Real time updates give the same view to all distributed participants.
• Participants can add their votes independently.

Manual and Automatic review and submit to board

• Automatically review and submit to board when votes from all participants are within specified range.

Use monday board filter to reduce number of items for estimation

• By default all board items are visible for estimation. To reduce number of items for estimation use board filter and press "Save to this view" button.

Item updates with estimation result

• Send update when estimation is written to board or restarted.
• Update can be a starting point for conversation.

Multiple estimation sessions per board

• Add new board view for each estimation session.

Facilitators mode

• Facilitators can review, write to board and restart estimations.
• When facilitators are not configured in settings everyone can perform those actions.

Time saving features

• Users can add votes before the estimation session to keep review sessions short

• Use board Filter to setup one estimation view that is always current, e.g.:

  • To show only not estimated items, select: Estimation 'Blank' in the filter.
  • To always estimate top group, select: Group 'Top group' in the filter.