Planning Poker:

• The below figure shows the poker cards available to estimate the user stories.
• Before starting Planning Poker, select one story which is a REFERENCE story (from the current backlog or that we have done earlier)
• In this technique team, Scrum Master, Product Owner will sit around the table (Figure shown below) for the planning poker session.
• Each team member will have a set of Planning Poker cards of values (0,.5,1,2,3,5,8,13,20,40 and 100) these represents story points in which team estimates.
• At the start of the session the product owner will READ the user story aloud, describing all its features and requirements.
• Then the team will estimate with the number mentioned on cards and show it to everyone. If all have given the same value then that will become the final estimate.
• If the values are different then estimators giving highest and lowest values explain their opinions and why these chose this value, until final consensus is reached.
• A good technique for small number of items in a small team
• Till the final consensus is reached team will have complete clarity on the user story.
• If the estimator doesn’t have any idea or couldn’t estimate can show (?) also.
• If the user story is ESTIMATED as above 20 considered as Epic which needs further BREAK down into smaller user stories.
• Story point estimated as 4 story points is of double the EFFORT, time and complexity then the story with 2 story points.