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Using Agile Planning Poker on MS Teams
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Gregory Wagner
Woodstock, GA, USA
Hello fellow PM's,

I am starting a project soon, and I would like to use Agile Planning Poker in order to estimate story points for the project. However, most of my team members are located outside of the office that I work in. As a result, all of my meetings are hosted over teams and I am unable to conduct planning poker as I would in an office.

I'm curious as to if anyone out there has found a way to use agile planning poker over Microsoft Teams? I know that there are also a handful of apps available on teams, but is there an app that is better than the rest?

Thank you and I look forward to your insight!
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Kiron Bondale
Mentor, World Class Productivity Inc.
Welland, ONTARIO, Canada
Gregory -

You can use the chat capability in all collaboration tools for this purpose (i.e. team members simultaneously enter their item sizes when the facilitator says "go") but other options are:

1. If you use Miro for collaboration, there are two estimating poker options within it
2. Planningpoker.com is free for up to five folks in a team and has paid subscriptions with higher capabilities

Kiron
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2 replies by Gregory Wagner and Shakeel Anwar Bhatti
Aug 08, 2023 11:00 AM
Gregory Wagner
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Thank you Kiron! I will be sure to try both options!
Sep 12, 2023 2:39 AM
Shakeel Anwar Bhatti
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Agree with Kiron's suggestion
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Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz
RYLAI Access Control
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
I agree with Kiron. Planningpoker.com is a good option for story point estimation, or you can use
https://planningpokeronline.com/ as an alternative.
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1 reply by Gregory Wagner
Aug 08, 2023 11:01 AM
Gregory Wagner
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Thank you Veronica!

I just tried out planningpoker.com and I think it will be my best option moving forward due to the ease of use.
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani
Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement, Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors
Newmarket, ONTARIO, Canada
I trust Kiron's experience and knowledge.
Network:18
Gregory Wagner
Woodstock, GA, USA
Aug 07, 2023 5:01 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Gregory -

You can use the chat capability in all collaboration tools for this purpose (i.e. team members simultaneously enter their item sizes when the facilitator says "go") but other options are:

1. If you use Miro for collaboration, there are two estimating poker options within it
2. Planningpoker.com is free for up to five folks in a team and has paid subscriptions with higher capabilities

Kiron
Thank you Kiron! I will be sure to try both options!
Network:18
Gregory Wagner
Woodstock, GA, USA
Aug 07, 2023 7:24 PM
Replying to Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz
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I agree with Kiron. Planningpoker.com is a good option for story point estimation, or you can use
https://planningpokeronline.com/ as an alternative.
Thank you Veronica!

I just tried out planningpoker.com and I think it will be my best option moving forward due to the ease of use.
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Sergio Luis Conte
Helping to create solutions for everyone, Worldwide based Organizations
Buenos Aires, Argentina
You can find a lot of tools, including free of cost tools, to play it.
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Shakeel Anwar Bhatti
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Aug 07, 2023 5:01 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Gregory -

You can use the chat capability in all collaboration tools for this purpose (i.e. team members simultaneously enter their item sizes when the facilitator says "go") but other options are:

1. If you use Miro for collaboration, there are two estimating poker options within it
2. Planningpoker.com is free for up to five folks in a team and has paid subscriptions with higher capabilities

Kiron
Agree with Kiron's suggestion
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Todd Kamens
Agile Coach, Project Management Consultant & Trainer, Guidance Technology, Inc.
Sharon, MA, USA
Another option, using the tool you are already in - Teams, is to give people time to think of their point estimate and then, tell them to post their estimate on the count of 3. I've done this many times and as long as everyone submits their estimate at the same time with little delay, it works well. You can just use Chat in Teams, or any other video tool and it works just fine.

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