Preview: Estimate 2

This now includes a beta version of the next version of Estimate, enable it on the Preview Features panel:

Play Planning Poker in Visual Studio Team Services. Select work from an iteration or your backlog, estimate the effort of those items with your team, and immediately update the work items.

Updates

2/1/2019 - 2.0.0

• First beta release of the new Estimate version

11/3/2016 - 1.0.19

• Fixes backend connection problems.

4/5/2016 - 1.0.13

• Improved support for projects created from an inherited process.

4/2/2016 - 1.0.11

• Bugfixes for projects created from CMMI template

3/27/2016 - 1.0.8

• Performance optimizations
• Non-numeric card selections are now indicated as a warning when being revealed:
• Improved support for Internet Explorer 11 when revealing cards

Note: If you run any into problems, please do not hesitate to send an email to the address listed under Support.

Estimate work items from your backlog...

Select any number of items on your backlog and start a new session from the context menu.

...or in an iteration

Estimate all work items in an iteration.

Work with your team in real-time

See immediately who has joined the session, who has selected a card, who has picked which estimate.

Update your work items as you go

Each estimation is saved to your work items as soon as you have estimated

Quick steps to get started

Starting a new session

1. Start a new session from the backlog context menu or use the Estimate hub and select an iteration
2. Share the generated link with your team members, so that they are able to join
3. Once all members have joined, everyone picks a card
4. After everyone has picked a card, click Reveal to reveal everyone's estimate
5. Select and commit the final estimate
6. Move on to the next work item. Estimates are automatically saved to the work items.

After you are done, you can end the session.

Joining an existing session

There are two ways to join an existing session, use a direct link, or pick an existing session from the Estimate hub

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