Release date: 27 Jul 2024

Our team is thrilled to announce the latest release of Planning Poker for Jira Cloud.

New Planning Poker version 2.0

Appfire is thrilled to announce the release of the completely refactored version of the beloved Planning Poker for Jira Cloud!

Video overview

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Enhancements

This new version boasts significant performance and security enhancements to follow the highest Appfire standards, along with a fresh, intuitive interface.

Dark theme is now supported

Planning Poker now fully supports Jira's dark theme for improved visual comfort and user preference alignment.

New Planning Poker game

Issue details

The Planning Poker game now has a much sleek interface. The default issue details are:

• Descriptions

• Details

• Attachments

• Comments – You can easily view the latest comments and add new ones.

  

All issue details can be easily collapsed or expanded. Their states will be remembered per user.

In addition, game admins can add large text fields (Custom fields of Paragraph type) below the description field. They can also add short custom fields (like numeric values, short text fields, single select fields, etc.) on the right side of the issue details.

Voting panel and reference issues

The voting area has received a complete UI update while sticking to the good old experience.

The Timer feature has been completely reworked. Now it’s configured on the go on the right of the Votig panel.

The Reference issues panel is now cached, so it loads faster for repeated issues. It can now be collapsed (personal setting) or disabled (game configuration).

Participants and Moderators

The Participants panel is collapsed by default, but users can expand it to access more features.

Multiple game admins can now be specified during the game creation or configuration.

Offline participants and their votes will be shown after they disconnect.

Game backlog

The new game backlog:

• has only one and only list of issues, estimated issues are now pushed to the “Estimated” backlog;

• the column with the custom field that is being estimated is located on the left and is highlighted whenever the value has been saved during the game;

• new UI for custom fields;

• new quick add option.

Game navigation

The new navigation is there to make any transitions quick and easy.

Updated game creation and configuration

Edit game

• New Advanced configurations tab;

• New Private game settings that will allow joining and seeing on the Dashboard of the game only to invited participants;

• Ability to specify Spectators and Estimations before the game;

• New Issue details customization experience.

• Ability to disable Reference issues panel.

Edit backlog

• new filtering experience;

• use multiple consecutive searches to add issues to the backlog;

• easy backlog columns customization;

• new backlog experience during the game creation:

  • remembered JQL/filters choice;

  • remembered JQL/filter from the previous game creation
    or

  • pre-set “Project” and “Status” filters for first time creators;

Improved Game dashboard

The game dashboard received new experience and features:

• Click the session name to join the game;

• Easily copy the game URL using the button next to the game name;

• Bulk delete games feature;

• Export game feature works for active games, not only for finished ones.

Estimation from Issue details

Planning Poker in issue details has been moved to the Issue Context view (panel on the right), it received real-time updates and new UI:

Project level configuration

From now on, Project admins can configure values for Planning Poker in Issue details without the need for Global Admin permissions; different project now can have different setting:

Unsupported features

NOTE The latest version doesn’t support the legacy Mobile view feature. Kindly inform us if this poses any inconvenience for you.