Planning Poker for Azure introduces convenient ways of estimating your work items in Azure DevOps. The app facilitates collaboration and discussion aimed at consensus-based estimations.

Our extension delivers a native-like estimation experience for Azure DevOps users.

Interactive Poker Game

Create an Interactive Poker Game with work items that you would like to estimate with your team, and invite team members using a shareable link.

The work item to be estimated is picked up by one of the game Moderators. Every participant automatically follows the currently estimated work item and sees the estimated item’s details, voting status by other team members, and game scope.

The moderator can reveal votes to show the Voting Summary panel. Then it’s possible to pick up the most voted estimate, save it and move to the next item, or Reset voting if consensus was not met.

Interactive Game Session

Voting area -> Voting summary

You can configure the game scope in a variety of ways:

• By sprint
• By query
• Custom Work Items Selection (You can add/remove items from backlog)

Async Poker Game

During the game creation, enable the Async game flow to allow participants to estimate at their own pace with an optional interactive review process similar to the standard Poker game. Check participants' progress to know when to review estimates.

During the async estimation, consider providing comments to explain your vote.

Async estimation

Estimate from Work Item view directly

Estimate your work items on the go directly from the work item details view - use our embedded interactive section.

Estimation from item details

You can vote, review results, and save estimates without leaving the work item details page. Our extension is always up to date with your team votes (they are automatically synchronized in the background while you focus on estimation and discussion).

Configurable Card Decks & Estimation Fields per Work Item Type

Different work items could be estimated in different ways. You can estimate with Story Points, Remaining Work, Hours, Effort, or your custom fields - the app gives you the flexibility to pick your own method. For every work item type, you can choose a different Estimation Field and configure a custom Card Deck.

Extension Configuration Panel

Custom card deck examples

Other featuers

Moderator Role

The moderator fully controls the estimation game, including work item selection, revealing the votes, resetting votes, and finishing the game. Other participants interactively follow the Moderator’s actions and provide estimates.

Estimator or Spectator roles

Keep track of Estimators who are online and can contribute to the estimation process. Observe the estimation process without active participation as Spectators.

Reference items

Check other finished items estimated with the same value while estimating.

Start Game Session from your Backlog / Sprint / Query / Board

Select multiple items on any work item list in Azure DevOps. Once items are selected you can kickstart the estimation game from a context menu.

Select multiple items using work items context menu