Estimate

Enhance your sprint planning sessions with the Planning Poker for Azure DevOps extension. This powerful tool allows you to streamline the estimation process by enabling your team to collaboratively estimate the effort of work items directly within Azure DevOps. Select work items from your iteration, query, or backlog, conduct effective estimation sessions with your team, and seamlessly update the work items in real-time. Improve accuracy and team alignment on effort estimates, ensuring better planning and execution of your projects.

Documentation

To start a new Planning Poker session in Azure DevOps, follow these steps:

1. Select a field

• Select a field to store the estimation for each work item.

  

2. Start a New Session:

• Create a new session

  

• From Backlog: Select work items and open the context menu to initiate the session.

  

• From a Query: Create a query and start the session from the context menu, or save it to the shared queries and use the Estimate hub to select the query.

  

3. Share the Link:

• Share the generated session link with your team members to allow them to join the session.

4. Team Members Join:

• Ensure all team members have joined the session.

  

5. Pick a Card:

• Each team member picks a card to provide their estimate.

  

6. Reveal Estimates:

• Once everyone has picked a card, click Reveal to show everyone's estimates.

  

7. Commit the Final Estimate:

• Select and commit the final estimate for the work item.

8. Move to the Next Work Item:

• Continue to the next work item. Estimates are automatically saved to the work items.

9. End the Session:

• After completing the estimation for all items, you can end the session.

  

Support

How to file issues and get help

This project uses GitHub Issues to track bugs and feature requests. Please search the existing issues before filing new issues to avoid duplicates. For new issues, file your bug or feature request as a new Issue.

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