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To make your team’s work output predictable, you must be able to estimate the team’s velocity and 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 Unfortunately, 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

To successfully play Planning Poker, you only need physical cards. This is easy with co-located teams, but it can be hard to implement in distributed teams. During planning meetings conducted via video conference, it’s hard to achieve an equal balance between multiple locations. Showing cards to the camera is not perfect, and the harder it is to read the votesestimates, the more detached participants become. Thanks to Agile Poker Enterprise for JIRA, everyone can see all the votes estimates inside JIRA, and they’re all equally important and visible. Every time the scrum master selects a story, it’s easily visible on top of the backlog so everyone can read it at their own pace. Situations in which extreme views are overlooked are no longer possible.

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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 AgileSoftware, 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.

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