[Class Activity] Planning Poker

Planning poker is an unbiased and efficient way of coming up with estimates for tasks in an iteration.

It brings out the hidden assumptions in a task, as well as there is no anchoring to initial estimations (the estimate provided by a first person in the open, and rest of the members provide their estimates relative to the first person's estimate).​

Below is the image of the planning poker cards used to provide estimates in units of hours/days/months, chosen based on the scale of the task.

Indicated below are the story cards, which state a task as a story of the form, I as a ...... want to ..... so that ....​

This form of story covers the details of who is taking up the task, the task to be completed, and the purpose. Here, for example, the task was to build a Suspension bridge and to test it load bearing capacity. The team arbitrarily chose a small scale bridge. Also the tasks had to be labelled with a unique identifier.

Some more types of bridges, which were estimated in the class activity.

The final outcome was the learning of the process of estimating with a planning poker, which was quite effective. And also the exact use of story cards, which can give the details of the story being worked on.