MGMT-6061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Planning Poker
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Planning poker is a technique for sizing pbis that was first described by. James grenning (grenning 2002) and then popularized by mike cohn (cohn 2006). Planning poker is based on a few important concepts (see figure) Planning poker is a consensus-based technique for estimating effort. Knowledgeable people (the experts) slated to work on a pbi engage in an intense discussion to expose assumptions, acquire a shared understanding, and size the pbi. Planning poker yields relative size estimates by accurately grouping or binning together items of similar size. The team leverages its established pbi estimation history to more easily estimate the next set of pbis. To perform planning poker, the team must decide which scale or sequence of numbers it will use for assigning estimates. Because our goal is to be accurate and not overly precise, we prefer to not use all of the numbers.
