Free online Planning Poker for distributed agile teams. Estimate user stories in real-time with your team, anywhere in the world.
Team-based consensus leads to more accurate story point estimates
Instant updates for all participants as votes are cast and revealed
No registration required. Rooms expire automatically after 5 days
Choose from Fibonacci, Modified Fibonacci, T-Shirts, or Powers of 2
Get started with agile estimation in three simple steps
Click "Start New Room" and choose your preferred voting system: Fibonacci, Modified Fibonacci, T-Shirt sizes, or Powers of 2. Name your planning poker session and you're ready to go.
Share the unique room link with your team members. No sign-up required for participants. They can join instantly and start collaborating on story point estimation.
Team members select their estimates simultaneously. When everyone has voted, reveal all cards at once to see consensus. Perfect for sprint planning and backlog grooming.
Planning Poker, also known as Scrum Poker, is a consensus-based agile estimation technique used by development teams to estimate the effort or relative size of user stories and tasks in sprint planning sessions.
Each team member uses a deck of cards with values representing story points, complexity, or time. After discussing a user story, everyone selects a card face-down. Cards are then revealed simultaneously to avoid anchoring bias, where one person's estimate influences others.
If estimates differ significantly, the team discusses their reasoning and re-votes until consensus is reached. This gamified approach makes sprint planning more engaging and produces more accurate estimates than traditional methods.
Everyone participates equally, combining diverse perspectives for better story point estimates
Simultaneous card reveal prevents anchoring effects and groupthink in estimation sessions
Divergent estimates spark valuable conversations about requirements and complexity
Quick, structured estimation process keeps sprint planning meetings focused and efficient
Perfect for distributed agile teams doing virtual sprint planning and backlog refinement
Team-based estimation produces more reliable forecasts than individual estimates
Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique used in agile software development. Team members estimate the effort or complexity of tasks using a deck of cards with values like Fibonacci numbers. It promotes collaboration and helps teams make more accurate estimates.
Create a room, invite your team members via a shared link, and start estimating. Each participant selects a card value for the story being estimated. Once everyone has voted, cards are revealed simultaneously to avoid bias. Discuss any significant differences and re-vote until consensus is reached.
Yes, our Planning Poker tool is completely free with no hidden costs. No registration, subscription, or credit card required. Simply create a room and share the link with your team to start estimating immediately.
We support four popular estimation scales: Fibonacci (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89), Modified Fibonacci (0, ½, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100), T-Shirt sizes (XXS, XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL), and Powers of 2 (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64).
Planning poker rooms automatically expire after 5 days for security and privacy. All data including votes, participants, and session history are permanently deleted. This ensures your planning sessions remain confidential.
No account creation necessary! Just click "Start New Room" to begin. Team members can join with just a link – no registration required. Your name is stored locally in your browser for convenience.
Absolutely! Our tool is designed specifically for distributed agile teams. Real-time synchronization ensures everyone sees updates instantly, making remote sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions seamless.
Story points are a unit of measure used in agile to estimate the effort, complexity, and risk of implementing a user story. Unlike time-based estimates, story points are relative measurements that account for uncertainty and help teams plan sprints more effectively.
There's no limit to the number of participants in a planning poker room. Whether you have a small team of 5 or a large scaled agile team with 20+ members, everyone can participate simultaneously.
Yes! We don't collect personal information or track your activities. Room data is stored temporarily and automatically deleted after 5 days. We don't use analytics cookies or sell any data.
Absolutely! Our planning poker tool is fully responsive and works seamlessly on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. Estimate from anywhere, on any device.
When estimates vary significantly, the team discusses their reasoning. The highest and lowest estimators typically explain their perspectives, which often reveals missing requirements or technical concerns. Then the team re-votes until reaching consensus.
Typically, Product Owners observe but don't vote in Planning Poker, as estimation should come from the development team who will do the work. However, our tool doesn't enforce this – teams can decide their own rules.
The Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...) reflects the inherent uncertainty in estimating larger work items. The increasing gaps between numbers acknowledge that it's harder to estimate bigger tasks accurately, encouraging teams to break down large stories.
Yes! While originally created for software teams, Planning Poker can be used for any project estimation needs – marketing campaigns, content creation, event planning, construction projects, or any collaborative effort requiring team-based estimates.