Planning Poker

Create a Planning Poker game

Step 1. Open the form to create a new game

There are 2 ways to open the form to create a new Planning Poker game:

Method 1. From the main dashboard

In the main dashboard, move the issues you want to estimate to the PICKED TO ESTIMATE column and click button in the top right.

Method 2. From the Games tab

Move to the Games tab in the top left menu tabs and click on the button.

Step 2. Fill in the information

After that, fill out the information of the new Planning Poker game as following instructions and click the Create button.

Game name (required)
Date and time
Countdown Timer: time to estimate each issue
Description
Estimation field: the custom field to store the estimation points of the issues in the game
Issues: add more or remove issues into the game
Deck template: from 1.1.4-AC version the app supports other deck types than the Fibonacci type
Participants: your teammates who will join the poker game including Teams or individual users
Other settings

Step 3. Modify the game (edit/delete) if needed

After creating, you can see the game in the game list in the Games tab as below and will be able to Join , edit , share , or remove the game.

Join a Planning Poker Game

Find the game from the game list and click the button, and it will direct you to the game screen.

Gamelog

Show all information about the game, including total estimated points, game name and date/time, list of online users, and the issues to estimate as below:

Estimate

To access the main page of the game, click on the Estimate tab:

There are 4 areas:

The issue information: the issue summary, description, and custom fields (Jira admin can decide which custom fields are displayed from Custom fields).
The poker deck: the list of poker cards in the grid for participants to pick as an estimation point of the issue.
The issue list: the list of issues for estimation of the game. The game facilitator can pick any issue of this list to start estimating.
Live chat: chat session between participants of the game.

Estimate an issue

Step 1. Pick the issue to estimate

The game monitor chooses any issue from the list on the right side of the screen to start estimating.

Step 2. Start estimating

Click on the button on the top menu.

Step 3. Pick the card

Estimate the story point based on personal opinion and pick a suitable poker card.

Notice that participants can pick another option (by choosing another card) or remove their current choice (by re-clicking the chosen card) while the timer is still counting. Everyone will be disabled from choosing when the timer is up.

Step 4. Submit the story point

When the timer is up or the game monitor clicks on the button during estimation, the vote results will be displayed.

The game monitor is the one who decides the final story point of the result and submits it.

Step 5. View results

After estimating issues, the game monitor can review the result by clicking on the Gamelog tab again.