Team

Planning poker

Estimate stories together in real time. Create a room, share the link, vote in private and reveal at once. Rooms are ephemeral: no accounts, and everything is wiped after two hours of inactivity.

Start

Create a room and send the link to your team. Whoever opens it joins the same table.

How a round works

One person creates the room and shares the invite link; everyone else opens it and types a name. Put the story or ticket title in the story field, and each person picks a card in private. The table only shows who has voted, not what they voted, so nobody anchors on the first number said out loud. That anchoring is the whole reason planning poker exists: estimates given after hearing someone else's number drift toward it. When the votes are in, hit Reveal, and if the numbers disagree, have the highest and lowest voters explain what they saw before voting again.

Rooms are meant for a session, not for records. The room lives on the server only while people use it and is deleted after two hours of inactivity. Names and votes are never stored beyond that.

Frequently asked questions

Do my teammates need an account?

No. They open the invite link, type a name and they are at the table. Nothing is stored server-side beyond the live room, which expires two hours after the last activity.

What do the cards mean?

The Fibonacci deck expresses that uncertainty grows with size: the gap between 13 and 21 is deliberately wide. The question mark means "I cannot estimate this yet", which is a useful signal, not a cop-out. The T-shirt deck works for rough sizing before a backlog is broken down.

Why hide votes until everyone is done?

Anchoring. Once one person says eight, everyone else's estimate drifts toward eight. Simultaneous reveal keeps each estimate independent, which is where the technique's value comes from.

Who can reveal and reset?

Anyone at the table. Small teams rarely need a dedicated moderator, and it keeps the room simple. Agree on who drives if that bothers you.