Priority poker

Priority planning poker is a technique that allows everyone on the team to contribute equally to the prioritization process while removing bias.

Watch the video on how the priority planning poker works.

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Here are some benefits of using priority planning poker:

• Speed up prioritization sessions.

• Give everyone the option to contribute to the final priorities.

• Highlight outside opinions to guide the discussion in the right direction.

• Bring fun and gamify the prioritization meetings.

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Poker game rules

The high-level steps of playing priority planning poker are:

1. Create a poker room with selected work items.

2. Invite team members.

3. Everyone votes on metrics for selected work items in real-time.

4. Present the results of the voting, together with each member’s votes.

5. Discuss when necessary and accept the votes. Or retake voting if outliers are prominent.

Roles in priority planning poker session

Everyone with Administer Priorities module permission can create a poker session. When you create a session, you automatically become the session admin.

Session admin controls the game, chooses work items that are currently being prioritized, closes voting, reveals vote results, and accepts the votes.

Players can only vote on the work item selected by the session admin at that time and view the results once voting is closed.

Available poker game types

When creating a poker game, you can choose between:

• Real-time poker

• Async (offline) poker

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Limitations

• The priority poker game is not available for boxes and goals.