PlanITpoker Reviews

The involvement of the whole team, which involves the Dev, QA and Project manager to size the User-Stories, the tool makes it fun as it allows every participant to give the number and the other participant comes to know only when the PM turns the cards. The involvement of sizing by providing the number makes the tool simple and quite exciting and gives a funny space to debate on why the sizing is high or low.

The timer, a built-in feature of the tool, should be optional rather than a timer. It should not allow the PM to proceed further until all the participant provides their input against the user stories.

Currently, we are using it to size the user stories as part of the sprint planning, where mostly the Dev and QA give their estimation to complete the tasks. Also, it provides a high-level overview to the PM on the velocity and commitments of the sprints.

The only reason I attend the grooming session is because of the planet poker tool, it makes the grooming session very interesting; the way the user interface is built and takes the response from all the participants makes it quite interesting, I like the button flip the cards, especially which gives the result of all the participants.

Once the user provides the points to the respective user story or ticket or technical user story should allow the user to edit the points voted by requesting the moderator and some of the topics mentioned in the plan it poker are unrealistic, like 100, which is just impossible in the agile world.

We are grooming sessions and providing the estimations for the QA and the DEV effort on the assigned user stories/technical stories/enhancement or tickets from all the participants.

It helps to estimate the projects easily

Not so much... There is nothing to dislike it

Project planning plays a major role in any industry in particular IT industry. It helps me a lot

I think the interface is quite nice. Puts a fun spin on what can be a pretty boring task, without going overboard and getting too goofy.

Also easily gets many team members on without any complicated login processes. Makes sprint planning faster and easier by allowing quick customization to stories, points, etc.

Nothing specific. I don't use a ton of features since I don't need them where I'm using the product.

Using PlanITpoker to do sprint planning for a couple agile teams. Easy to switch from team to team and make sure we don't have to log into different sessions for each one. Allows us to use our time more efficiently.

I like that you can setup your sprint planning meeting beforehand and stack rank the stories and then once meeting time comes all you need is to go through as much of the list as possible.

There are a number of really good features around it as well with showing the amount of time on story, skipping, re-voting and averaging the values. It also keeps a record of your estimations so that you can enter them in your tool of choice later.

Though I think this is an ok problem it is not directly tied to your velocity or the tool that you use to track your stories. So this means that you have to do some level of manual setup but in general this is not a big deal.

Planning for sprints.

It's very easy to use, as a user you get invited to a board and aren't swamped with too many options. The story is presented and your team can vote with basic cards.

There isn't much to properly dislike, its minimal barriers of entry to use it make it accessible. But also feels very basic to use, which isn't always a plus.

Our team can quickly be presented with stories, and can vote on them privately until everyone has voted and we can come to a common consensus on what a story should be rated.