- What is scrumplanning.com?
- scrumplanning.com is an easy & fun estimation tool for development teams. It helps development teams discuss and vote on story points in real-time. Development teams can use scrumplanning.com to create tickets, vote on them in teams of up to 12 people, and reveal the score in real-time to help establish and discuss the complexity of each task.
- How do I create an account on scrumplanning.com?
- First, visit scrumplanning.com and hit create room. You will be offered a login screen, if you have not yet created an account hit "sign-up" and use Google, GitHub or your email address to create a new account. This will become your account. You can then create a room from here with a room title, estimation technique and more customizable settings for each room.
- Is there a free trial for scrumplanning.com?
- You can get a 14-day free trial to the premium plan on scrumplanning.com. After the 14-day trial, you will be charged monthly for the premium subscription pricing. There is a free pricing that you can use ongoing to access the tool for estimation meetings.
- What features are included in the premium plan?
- Our premium subscription offers some bonuses like; unlimited access to games, players and features, TimeTravel, more avatars and Jira connection.
- How do I invite team members to a meeting?
- Sharing the URL of the meeting or using the QR code which can be scanned. You can join on both desktop and mobile for voting rights. Premium subscribers can use passwords to protect people from joining meetings, adding an additional layer of security.
- How do I cancel my subscription?
- If you've decided to cancel your subscription, please visit your billing page that allows you to manage your account access. From here, you can cancel any of your existing subscriptions or modify your plan. Please reach out to [email protected] with any feedback on how to make it better, as we love to learn & improve.
- What is your refund policy?
- Our refund policy is outlined in the terms of service. It states that you have a 30-day refund window.
- How can I reset my password?
- Passwords can be reset by heading to the login page. Hit "forgot password" and you'll be prompted to add your email. From here you can sign-into your email account and get a temporary password.
- What is Planning Poker?
- Planning poker, also known as story point estimation, allows teams to come together to discuss story points of tickets in their development backlog. The session allows people to vote using a numeric sequence to estimate the value of each story point. During this planning poker session, everyone votes and a score is revealed allowing you to see how each person has voted and how their score compares with others. Discussion around each story point commences after to help establish a clear score to allocate to the story point.
- Who is Scrum Planning for?
- Scrum Planning is most suitable for small to large development and product teams looking to prioritize their tickets and align on the value of each story point. Each room can be controlled and managed by a scrum master. Each scrum master can manage upcoming tickets and better align the team once everyone's scores are revealed.
- Is this helpful for Scrum Masters?
- Scrum masters can benefit from scrumplanning.com as they can use the tool to help plan tickets and bring up issues for the team to discuss in an easy and friendly space.
- How do I invite someone to an estimation room?
- Inside Scrum Planning, create a room and sign-in using Google or your account details. From here, you can see all the pages you own and manage as a scrum master. Once you're inside a game room, hit "invite" and you will be able to share an invite link or a QR code. QR codes are ideal for teams, in an office, as you can display this on the monitor and allow people to use their phones to play using the mobile web version of the estimation room.
- How many people can use each room?
- Scrum & agile coaches recommend up to 3-9 people per room for an effective scrum estimation meeting. We allow up to 12 members per room, but we'd recommend following scum guidance from sites like Scrum.org as a recommended resource.
- Why use Planning Poker & estimation rooms?
- Story point estimation can be an effective technique to help teams discuss the value of workload and uncover perspective issues amongst your teams. The benefits include being able to align your team on the next tickets and detecting whether your team are lacking in skill development and/or are best to take on certain projects.
- Why do people use Planning Poker?
- Development teams find that planning poker helps them better plan workload and saves them time on each story point estimation by aligning team on what each score is, the value of the ticket and estimated completion.
- How to Use Planning Poker Rooms?
- Estimation rooms on scrumplanning.com are easy to use and help development teams get aligned. Rooms can be created from the home and shared with other people to get everyone inside the session. Once everyone is inside the room, scrum masters can add tickets and begin a session of voting. Everyone votes and shares a score they believe the story point (ticket) is worth and scores are revealed by the scrum master. From here, discussion commences on the value of the ticket and everyone's vote.
- What does the coffee cup mean in Planning Poker?
- The coffee cup in scrum poker can be used to typically represent a break. This allows those who are not involved in the estimation to skip, or for them to step out of the meeting and not attend the voting.
- What does the banana mean in Planning Poker?
- The banana token in estimation meetings allows for people to share a vague message to say that they are unclear on the information and are unable to provide an estimation.