Scrum Planning Poker Story Points

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Scrum Planning Poker Story Points
  1. Story points isolate the software development work from the associated logistic work items, so estimates using point based should more consistent than hour base approach. About Visual Paradigm Visual Paradigm help organizations stay competitive and responsive to change faster and better in today’s fast changing environment.
  2. STORY POINT FOR AGILE TEAMS,DEVELOPERS. Scrum poker (also called planning poker) is a fast and easy way to make estimates needed to reach a goal. Just pick a value that fits your needs for that goal, tap it and see what the other team members have chosen. Download it today! APP STORE PLAY STORE.

There are several online apps like Scrum Poker (android) or Scrum Poker planning (IOS), etc. That can be used. The cards will have common estimates on them e.g. 0, 0.5,1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20 etc. This sequencing will look familiar to most of the readers and is the Fibonacci series. If the story points are still different, the players repeat the process approximately three times. If the story points continue to be different, the scrum master facilitates the scrum team’s consensus on a story point number. The players repeat steps 3 through 6 for each user story until all user stories have been estimated.

StoryScrum story point cards

Lots of Scrum teams have been using story points and planning poker for relative sizing.

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However, this is one of the concepts like pointers in C, which troubles most of the teams and they all have their own interpretations on the subject. Lots of material has been written. However it becomes difficult to join all the dots together for any team-member to digest at one place. This series of posts is an attempt to simplify learning and make the concept as clear as possible.

Some of the posts were written in the past and some I am writing now in order to have completeness around the subject. This list will keep getting updated as I write new posts on the subject.

Scrum Planning Poker Online

Please share your queries/doubts (which you don’t see in this list) in the comments and I’ll work on creating a post on them.

Scrum Planning Poker Story Points Games

  1. Why to Use Relative Sizing? – New*
  2. What is a Story Point? – New*
  3. Who all Participate in Story Point Sizing Activity – New*
  4. How to do Story Point Sizing with Planning Poker? – New*
  5. How to Forecast the Number of Story Points for a Sprint – New*
  6. Never Map Story Points with Hours – New*
  7. How to Handle Changes by PO During Running Sprint
  8. How should We Size Non-Functional Stories
  9. Should We Revisit the Story Point Baseline as the Team Matures
  10. Should We Count Story Points for Unfinished Stories? – New*
  11. Agile Contracting