Estimate user stories in Sprint Planning with free online Planning Poker. Interactive Fibonacci card deck, consensus calculation, and zero sign-up required.
Planning Poker (also known as Scrum Poker) is a consensus-based estimation technique used by agile teams to estimate the relative effort or size of user stories and backlog items. Team members discuss a story, pick cards secretly, and reveal them simultaneously to avoid anchoring bias and spark productive technical discussions.
The modified Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100) reflects the exponential growth of uncertainty as tasks get larger and more complex. Humans are poor at estimating absolute hours for software development, but great at comparative sizing (Story Points). Sizing relatively prevents false precision and rigid deadlines.
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When votes diverge (for example, someone votes 2 and another votes 13), the standard agile rule is to invite the lowest and highest voters to explain their reasoning. The lower voter may know a shortcut or existing library, while the higher voter may see hidden architectural risks. After a brief discussion, the team conducts a re-vote to reach consensus.
The "?" card indicates that the team member feels the user story is unclear, lacks acceptance criteria, or needs technical spike/refinement before estimation. The "☕" (coffee) card signals that the team has been in meetings too long and needs a 5-minute break to regain focus and energy.