Planning Poker for Azure

Estimate with confidence without leaving Azure DevOps.

Planning Poker for Azure helps teams align on effort, uncover hidden complexity, and reach consensus faster. Run live or asynchronous estimation sessions, capture every team member's input, and save estimates directly to your work items.

Whether you're refining a backlog, planning a sprint, or preparing for a release, Planning Poker keeps estimation simple and collaborative.

Why teams choose Planning Poker

Good estimates come from shared understanding.

Planning Poker helps teams discuss assumptions, identify risks, and align before work begins. Teams can estimate directly in Azure DevOps, support distributed contributors through asynchronous voting, and adapt estimation workflows to fit the way they already work.

Bring every voice into the estimation process and reach consensus faster.

Estimate your way

Interactive sessions

Run live estimation sessions with private voting, moderator controls, and consensus-based discussions.

Asynchronous estimation

Collect estimates and feedback across locations and time zones without scheduling another meeting.

Work item estimation

Estimate directly from individual Azure DevOps work items when a full session isn't needed.

Collect estimates asynchronously and review results when the team is ready.

Run live estimation sessions that keep discussions focused and decisions moving forward.

Built for Azure DevOps

Launch estimation sessions directly from your backlog, sprint, board, query, or work item.

Planning Poker supports story points, effort, remaining work, original estimates, and custom numeric fields, making it easy to fit into existing planning processes.

Start estimating from the places your team already works.

Flexible by design

Every team estimates differently.

Customize card decks, estimation scales, and estimation fields to match your workflow while keeping planning consistent across the team.

Configure Planning Poker to fit your team's estimation process.

Why invest in better estimation?

Planning Poker helps teams spend less time debating estimates and more time understanding the work ahead.

By creating space for discussion and alignment before development begins, teams can improve planning consistency, reduce estimation bias, and make more informed decisions.

Want to compare estimates with actual effort? Try 7pace Timetracker to track time on Azure DevOps work items and continuously improve estimation accuracy.