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One of the ways to make planning meetings more effective is to encourage people to prepare in advance. Unfortunately, going from desk to desk or sending e-mail reminders with the stories attached is often ineffective because people need a goal, and just reading the list of stories is tedious. One way to encourage your team to prepare for the planning meeting is to simply create an asynchronous session in Agile Poker Enterprise for JIRA. This process is an asynchronous way of implementing the Planning Poker® technique. Select the stories that are likely to hit the next sprint or need refinement and add all your teammates as participants. The add-on will send out an invitation e-mail. The deadline is your next planning meeting. Each person, in their own time, can estimate selected tasks. If anything is unclear or they have something to add, they can comment on their estimation. And they can do it without being biased by others’ opinions.
Estimate more effectively
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