From the course: Agile Foundations
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Planning Poker
- One of the most popular ways that Agile teams combat groupthink is by playing a game of planning poker. This is a consensus building technique that was adapted from a group decision-making tool called Wideband Delphi. Planning poker helps groups of people estimate how much effort it would take for the whole team to finish a user story. It's a way to get a shared understanding about all the development and design challenges to deliver that small batch of work. So let's take a look at how this works. Your team sits around a table. And a facilitator, usually the scrum master, holds a user story that the product owner wants delivered. Each person on the team will have a set of playing cards. The numbers on the cards represent relative effort. The higher the number, the greater the effort. You can use any range of numbers, but the most popular range is a modified Fibonacci sequence. So something like one, two, three, five, eight, 13, and 21. So everyone on the development team sits…
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