Sunday, October 13, 2013

Planning Poker Estimation with Remote Teams


Even though Agile software development favors co-located teams, sometimes getting everyone together all in one place is just not possible. If you have team members that work remotely all or some of the time, or are working with different company divisions or outside consultants and need to do estimation during release planning it can be difficult if you want to play Planning Poker.  This blog entry from fourkitchens.com describes a clever way to use Google Docs to help remote team members vote. It's a great idea that doesn't take a lot of time to set up and can allow this particular estimation process to run more smoothly when people can't all be in the same room.

On Scrum: Playing Planning Poker with a Scattered Team

14 comments:

  1. The idea of using Google Docs is very smart, but I think long-term it would be irritating and a scrum team will not use it at the end of the day.

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    Greetings,
    Mateusz

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  2. Hi there!

    I love the Star Wars meme!

    I think ScrumDo really nailed it with their planning poker integration. http://help.scrumdo.com/organizing-and-planning-work/planning-poker
    Check out the video at the bottom of the page for a demo.

    Thanks for the article.

    Best,

    Kasey

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