To make your team’s work output predictable, you must be able to estimate the effort needed to complete your user stories and team’s velocity. The Planning Poker® methodology lets you not only estimate your stories but also clarify them at the same time. During planning meetings conducted via video conferencing software, participants can easily lose interest and get distracted when looking at the screen shared by the other side. Going over JIRA issues one-by-one can be a boring, disengaging task.
Focus on your stories
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After estimating all the stories that are likely to fit into the next sprint, the team can make a final commitment and start the sprint. Thanks to deep integration with JIRA Agile, it’s very easy to conduct estimating sessions at the beginning of sprint planning meetings so no additional meetings are required. For small teams, this process doesn’t require preparation, and it fits into a reasonable amount of time. For distributed teams, you ensure that all team members participate equally, making the estimates as accurate as possible.