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Planning Poker represents expert-based estimation with a structured group consensus approach. The method originates from agile software development where it was created in order to provide a lightweight approach for estimating software development interactions and planning the scope of software releases. Unlike other alternative expert-based methods, Planning Poker explicitly makes use of historical project data. Actually, the method focuses on estimating the functional size of developed software and then uses historical data on development productivity to come up with the effort required to develop software of a given functionality.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Adam Trendowicz

  2. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Ross Jeffery

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Further Reading

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  • M. Cohn (2005), Agile Estimating and Planning. 1st Edition. Prentice Hall PTR.

    The book presents comprehensive discussion of estimation and planning agile software development projects.

  • E. Miranda, P. Bourque, and A. Abran (2009), “Sizing user stories using paired comparisons.” Information and Software Technology, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1327–1337.

    Authors provide a systematic way for estimating the size of user story using triangulation.

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Trendowicz, A., Jeffery, R. (2014). Planning Poker. In: Software Project Effort Estimation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03629-8_13

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