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A tour of the room

planningpoker.org runs SprintPoker’s room, the same one teams use on Laya.net. Here is what each part does.

  1. Session bar

    The session type (Poker or Async), whether it is private and whether guests can join, and, for moderators, Invite (Sharing in a session shared with SprintPoker for Jira). Its menu has the keyboard shortcuts, Session Settings and Mark as Finished for moderators, and the session link in a workspace’s session.

  2. Moderator controls

    Finish voting reveals the cards. Then choose the final estimate and press Save & Next, or Re-estimate after a discussion. Set Timer keeps a round short.

  3. The item being estimated

    Its title, and for Jira issues the key, epic, assignee and priority, with a link that opens the issue in a new tab.

  4. Your cards

    Pick a card in secret. Change your mind any time before the reveal. The ? card means “not sure”: it counts as a vote, never towards the average.

  5. Session Issues

    Everything in the session, with what is done, what is next and the agreed estimates. Moderators pick what comes next, and in a workspace’s session they can add more items.

  6. Item details

    The item’s description, then for Jira issues and board cards its status, priority, assignee, more fields and the activity.

  7. People

    Who is here, who has voted (a tick) and who has not (a clock). After the reveal, each person’s card. Moderators wear a crown.

A round, start to finish

Vote, reveal, talk, agree

Everyone votes in secret

Each person picks a card. The room shows who has voted, never what. Other people’s votes are not even sent to your browser until the reveal.

The cards flip together

Once everyone has voted, or when a moderator finishes voting, all the cards flip into the results: average, most common vote, median, range, highest, lowest and a chart of the spread.

Talk about the outliers

The people with the highest and lowest cards explain their thinking. That conversation is the point of planning poker.

Save & Next

The moderator picks the final estimate and moves on. For Jira issues, Save & Next can write it to Jira, by default to the board’s own estimation field.

Table view and Classic

Two ways to see the same round

A session can be shown as a poker table or as the classic room. The cards, the reveal and the results are the same in both.

Table view

Everyone takes a seat round a poker table. Your card lands face down in front of you, all the cards flip together at the reveal, and the result shows in the middle of the table.

Classic

The full room: your cards, the people, Session Issues and the item’s details. The tour above shows each part.

  • Who chooses: the host or a moderator picks the view for everyone, with the View switch at the top of the room.
  • Prefer Classic? Turn on Always Classic for me in the room’s Preferences. It is kept in this browser.
  • On a phone, the room always shows Classic.

Roles

  • Moderator: runs the round: Finish voting, Save & Next, Re-estimate and the timer. The host is always a moderator. In a guest session, the host is the only moderator.
  • Participant: votes on each item.
  • Observer: follows along without voting. Good for product owners and stakeholders.
  • Guest: someone who joined by link with just a name. Guests are in that one session and nothing else.

Real-time or async

  • Poker: everyone together, live, with discussion between rounds. Available to guests.
  • Async Poker: everyone votes in their own time before a due date, with optional comments. A moderator finishes voting, and you review together. Starting one needs a free Laya account, because it runs over days; guests can still vote by link.

On any device

  • On a phone the room has Estimate, Issues and Details tabs.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: type a card’s value to vote that card.
Guest or account

What changes when you sign in

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  • Real-time planning poker with every built-in deck, or your own cards
  • Up to 8 people, you included
  • Typed-in items, timer, reveal, results and re-estimate
  • Download the results as CSV
  • Deleted after 24 hours, with no saved history
  • No Jira, Laya boards or Async Poker
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