Agile Poker is a versatile toolkit for estimating your product backlog to get it ready for grooming and planning. It is heavily inspired by Planning Poker® - but not limited to - and derives the best practices from industry standard estimation techniques.

Key highlights:

• Customisable estimation values
• Online presence
• Dynamic distribution chart of estimate values

Pricing

While Agile Poker is currently available in the marketplace as a free-preview extension, it is planned to become a paid one. Exact licensing details (i.e. whether it will be tier-based or per user pricing, or the payment method itself) will be known later. We are in the process of evaluating possible solutions fulfilling our technical and legal requirements.

Getting started

Start estimation by clicking extension icon (which looks like a set of four cards) in the top-right menu above the Board:

A dialog will popup where you can estimate items from your backlog:

Each team member can estimate work items in secrecy, estimations are being hidden until Scrum Master decides to reveal them or if last session participant puts his/her estimate:

Dynamic chart shows distribution of estimate values. At the results conclusion the final choice can be stored back into issue's Story Points field (or any other effort type unit depending on development process).

Configuring Agile Poker Session

We do our bests to provide sensible defaults for Agile Poker configuration but sometimes the defaults may be not enough for you.

• You can easily add, remove possible values using the simple user interface shown below:

• If you want to give full control over poker session to only one user you can choose a session scrum master.

Updates

2018-09-24 - 1.2.0

• Allow people from outside the project team to participate in the session (requires access to Graph API - upgrade confirmation is needed)
• Added an smile icon for collecting feedback
• Agile Poker dialog now initializes faster
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Added distribution chart of estimate values

2018-09-17 - 1.0.11

• Settings are now project-scoped
• The sequence of items in session is determined according to priority on backlog
• Handle extension initialization error (and display meaningful message in the UI)

2018-09-11 - 1.0.7

• Show online presence of the participants in the session
• Allow customizing the estimation values to your own list
• Add Scrum Master role - the sole person who can manage the ongoing session (close, save final estimate, reset)

2018-09-05 - 1.0.0

• Initial release that contains basic Planning Poker functionality

Contact

Send feature requests, bug reports or any other questions to our support team at support@spartez.com.

Happy estimating!

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