From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
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Playing planning poker
From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
Playing planning poker
- In Agile you're not estimating for individuals, you're estimating work for the entire team. Many different developers on the team work on the same story. Some developers might decide the story is more complex. Another developer might think that the story is so small, they could finish it up before lunch. There's no way to tell which developer is right until the work begins. Planning poker is a card game that helps the team get the best story estimates with less than perfect information. Planning poker helps give everyone a voice. Planning poker is not just about creating an estimate. In many ways the estimation is just the byproduct of the game. The activity is really about combating groupthink. Groupthink is the way that people tend to agree with the most popular idea. The strongest voices will drown out any disagreement. Planning poker tries to combat this tendency. Each team member makes an estimate before they're told what everyone else thinks. Each tendee will have a deck of…
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