Agile Estimating and Planning: Planning Poker ®

* An excerpt from Mike Cohn's eLearning video training course on Agile Estimating and Planning. In this video, Mike introduces a popular agile estimation technique: Planning Poker. The follow-on modules are accessible as part of the full course, available here: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/...

00:00 Agile Estimating and Planning: Planning Poker
00:11 What is Planning Poker?
00:21 Step 1: Deal the Cards
00:35 Step 2: Product Owner and Team Discuss User Story
00:51 Step 3: Choose an Estimate from Cards
00:59 Step 4: Turn Over All Cards
01:03 Step 5: Move to Next User Story or Discuss
01:20 Why the Outliers Matter
01:58 Step 6: Repeat Steps 3-5 Until Estimates Converge
02:30 Planning Poker Is Not a Vote
03:12 Two Problems that Stop Teams from Estimating
04:06 How to Get Started with Relative Estimating
04:41 Why Two Baseline Estimates Is Enough

This is the final excerpt from the full Agile Estimating and Planning course.
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Links from video
Planning Poker Cards (No longer available for sale)
Planning Poker Tool (Available for free with membership in Agile Mentors Community: https://learn.agilementors.com/agile-...)
Full Course: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/...