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Planning poker your team can join in one tap.
Start a room, share the link, and everyone picks an estimate on their device. Reveal all the cards at once to surface the disagreement worth talking about, then re-round until you land it.
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Why teams use this
Vote without anchoring
Cards stay hidden until you reveal, so nobody bends their estimate toward the first number they hear.
Reveal the real spread
Flip every card at once. The gap between a 2 and a 13 is exactly the conversation that makes estimates better.
Re-round in one click
Talk it through, start a fresh round, and vote again, as many times as it takes to reach a number the team believes.
How it works
Press start
A planning-poker room opens with a standard Fibonacci deck. No setup.
Share the link
Drop the join link in your standup channel. The team joins from any browser.
Vote and reveal
Everyone picks a card, you reveal together, discuss the spread, re-round until aligned.
About Planning Poker
What planning poker actually is
Planning poker is a way for a team to estimate work without the loudest voice setting the number. Everyone picks a card privately, all the cards turn over at once, and the team talks about the gap. The cards usually follow a Fibonacci-style scale, because the further out the work sits the less precision is honest. It is used most in Scrum refinement and sprint planning, but nothing about it requires Scrum.
The spread is the point, not the average
The instinct is to average the cards and move on. That throws away the only information the exercise produced. When one person says 2 and another says 13, they are not disagreeing about effort, they are describing different pieces of work. One has spotted a migration nobody mentioned, or the other knows a helper already exists. Ask those two to explain, re-deal, and the second round usually converges on its own.
Running a round
Read the item aloud, give people a moment to ask clarifying questions, then everyone picks. Reveal together. If the cards are close, take the number and move on: there is nothing to discuss. If they are far apart, hear the highest and lowest first, then re-deal. Two rounds is normal, three means the item probably needs splitting rather than more estimating.
Remote and hybrid teams
Planning poker was designed around a physical deck, which is exactly what breaks on a call. People estimate out loud, anchoring on whoever spoke first, and the quiet half of the team stops contributing. Simultaneous reveal restores the thing that made it work. Everyone here plays from their own phone or laptop with a shared link, so a hybrid room and a fully remote one behave the same way.
Questions, answered
- Do we need accounts to play planning poker?
- No. Press start and share the link. The whole team joins with no sign-up. Make a free account if you want to keep a record or run it regularly.
- What cards are in the deck?
- A standard estimation deck with the Fibonacci-style values plus “?” and a coffee-break card, the same set most teams already use.
- Can everyone see the votes before the reveal?
- No. Estimates stay hidden until the facilitator reveals them, so the first number said out loud does not anchor the room.
- Is there a limit on team size?
- It comfortably fits a normal sprint team. Everyone joins from their own device, no installs required.
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