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Planning poker

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, planning poker means: A team estimation technique where participants reveal estimates together and discuss differences before estimating again.

In Turkish: planlama pokeri

How it is used

Used with story points in agile planning. Cards express relative effort or complexity, not bets or guaranteed durations.

Example sentences

  1. During planning poker, the large spread in estimates revealed an unclear migration requirement.

    Disagreement prompts discussion about assumptions instead of simply averaging numbers.

  2. The team repeated planning poker after learning that the payment library already supported refunds.

    New information changes the effort estimate without changing the estimation method.

Common collocations

  • planning poker session
  • play planning poker
  • story pointA unit that agile teams use to estimate how much effort a task needs, based on its size, complexity and uncertainty rather than on hours.
  • estimateTo judge roughly how much time or effort a task will take before you start it. As a noun, 'an estimate' is that rough figure.

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