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Productivity Tool

The free online Planning Poker game

Invite your team and deliver better estimates faster. Start a new game online, or in Slack and make estimating collaborative and fun.

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Features

Estimate tasks in a fun way

Planning Poker is a great method for developers and agile teams to estimate tasks and to calculate risk in a playful way. By encouraging discussion and collaboration among team members, estimates are based on a shared understanding of the task, making estimates more accurate and complete. Anonymous and simultaneous voting speeds up the process and helps teams find agreement faster.

No registration

Just play the game online. You do not need to register with your email address, nor do we collect any personal data.

CSV export

After you discussed all topics, download the results as CSV file to have them at hand and share with your team.

Available in Slack

Start a new game directly in Slack and invite your team members to join. Learn how it works.

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Improve your team’s efficiency with planning poker

─ Vote on tickets and estimate the relative size and complexity of tasks in a software development project.
─ Uncover assumptions or uncertainties that the team may have about a task.
─ Plan sprints and milestones in the project schedule in consensus with everyone.

Game instructions

How to play the free online
Planning Poker game?

Step 1
Open the Planning Poker website and start a new game. You don’t need to register by email for this.

Step 2
Set up the game and give it a title, decide on the voting system and enter your player name.

Step 3
Invite your team to join by clicking “Invite Players”. Share the link with your team members.

Step 4
Before you start estimating, decide on the topics you want to estimate. Add one topic per row.

Step 5
During the game, each player picks a card to vote on the estimated effort to complete the task.

Step 6
After all players have voted, reveal the cards, discuss the votes with your team and pick the winning estimate.

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Repeat this process for each topic until all have been discussed. Once all topics have been discussed, look up the results and download the results in a CSV file. Return later to continue voting, or start a new game.

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APP FOR SLACK

Start new games directly in Slack

The free Planning Poker game in combination with Slack is a great way to boost productivity and have fun planning projects.

Add to Slack  How it works

How to install the app in Slack?

Follow the guide and get the installation done in only three steps:

 

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    Click on “Add to Slack”

    Click the Add to Slack button on planningpoker.net. The app will request permissions to your Slack workspace.

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    Allow access to your workspace

    Grant permission to install the app on your workspace. You will be redirected back to the planning poker website.

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    Start playing!

    Now you can start a new game in Slack with the slash command /planningpoker or via the shortcuts.

Play Planning Poker with our app for Slack

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Start a new game:
/planningpoker

Enter the slash command in any conversation or channel, both private and public. Alternatively, click on the little plus that represents shortcuts. Type in planningpoker to find and confirm the slash command.

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Enter your game details in the pop-up form

Give your game a title, add topics that you want to discuss, choose your preferred voting system and invite players from your Slack workspace.

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Planning Poker sends the game link to all players

After submitting the form, the app in Slack responds with the link to your game and sends it to all invited players. You can invite more players on the game website later. Let’s deal the cards!

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Try the Planning Poker game online – it’s free

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FAQ

Planning Poker, also known as Scrum poker, is a technique to estimate the relative size and complexity of tasks in a software development project. It’s a playful approach used in agile project management to encourage the team’s communication and collaboration.

Planning Poker helps teams to agree on how much work is needed to complete a task. Team members use cards to vote on the amount of effort required and then discuss the results together. It offers a structured and efficient way to estimate effort based on a shared understanding of the task. This helps to ensure that estimates are more accurate and complete.

Use the /planningpoker command in Slack to open the app, enter game details in the pop-up form, click the game link and start playing on the website.

  1. Click on the „Add to Slack“ button on our landing page.
  2. Allow the app access to your workspace.
  3. Once the app is installed, you can start a new game from within your Slack workspace with the slash command /planningpoker.

The voting system represents a unit to estimate topics. You are free to add your own meaning to the numbers and sizes. For instance, numbers could represent hours, days, or a level of difficulty.

The Fibonacci system uses numbers from the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.) and is often used in Planning Poker.

With Powers of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.) you get more detailed estimations of the work needed.

With the T-Shirt sizes system (XS, S, M, L, XL) you can indicate the size of a task. It’s perfect for teams that are not familiar with the other systems.

Yes, it is! We wanted to create a useful tool and make it accessible to everyone. Also, we enjoyed the process of developing it and making it available to the community without any cost.