POINTS to KEEP in MIND DURING AGILE ESTIMATION – Planning Poker
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All developers in the team should participate in planning poker.
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Each person involved in estimation should be given a deck of cards at beginning of planning poker estimation meeting. Each card should have valid estimates. Cards can have serial number ( 1,2,3,4,5,..etc ) or Fibonacci numbers ( 1,2,3,5,8,13..etc) or Tshirt sizing ( S,M,L,XL,XLL )
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Prepared card can be reused in other planning poker estimation meeting.
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Product owner or business analyst or user story creator reads out user story.
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Product owner or business analyst or user story creator answers any questions that developers asks.
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There might be disagreement among estimators on user story points.So, people having such disagreements explain their points. Then estimators are asked to estimate again.