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Jeff DaltonGreat Big Agilehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4206-3_44

44. Planning Poker

Jeff Dalton1 
(1)
Waterford, MI, USA
 

Description

Planning Poker is an agile estimation technique that establishes relative sizing using story points and playing cards.

Planning Poker solves the estimation problem by using an estimating game to size backlog items relative to one another. The relative size of a backlog item is intentionally disconnected from the effort in hours to encourage the team to think in a different way: “roughly right” versus “accurately wrong” is the goal.

In Planning Poker, the agile team, working with a scrum master and the product owner, sizes each epic or user story as part of product backlog development or sprint planning. ...

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