Planning Poker

Planning Poker is a team activity for sizing User Stories.

What you'll need: Planning poker cards, the User Stories that are to be sized, a Sharpie Setup: A large table to work on and that the whole team can fit around Remember: Set a timebox before you start

Planning Poker is played any time the team would like to size a User Story. Events it is commonly played at include backlog refinement meetings and during Sprint Planning.

To play Planning Poker you'll need a pack of Planning Poker cards; these can either be ones that you've made yourself or purchased. You'll need enough cards for one set per team member.

The following set uses T-shirt sizes:

Another approach uses a modified Fibonacci sequence:

The Fibonacci sequence ...

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