Planning Poker

What Planning Poker does

Planning Poker lets teams estimate effort using a private-then-reveal voting pattern. Unlike anonymous polls, it collects each participant’s name and shows the full spread of estimates after reveal.

List page

Create deck (title + optional tags)
Search by title/tag
Sort by name or created date
Edit metadata from list

Detail workspace

Tabs:

Live
Questions
Results

Question builder

Supported scale presets:

Fibonacci (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21)
T-shirt (XS, S, M, L, XL)
Emoji (neutral to energized scale)

Selecting a preset auto-populates the card labels. Each card label and color can be customized. Maximum 10 cards per question.

Question type is fixed to choice. No other question types are available.

Live tab controls

Download QR
Copy join link
Open display view
Show lobby screen
Push question live
Reveal results

Results tab

After reveal, the display shows both a chart of vote distribution and a votes-with-names list showing each participant’s name and the card they selected.

Audience flow

Join round — enter your name (persisted in localStorage for future rounds)
Question — select a card from the scale
Voted — card selected, waiting for reveal
Results — see the full spread with names

Player name is required. This is what makes Planning Poker different from anonymous polls.

Display flow

Display page shows:

Lobby with QR and join URL
Active question with card options
Revealed results with chart and named vote chips

Session step

Planning Poker can be added as a step type in Sessions using the planningpoker type.

Typical host sequence

Create a deck.
Add estimation prompts and choose a scale preset.
Customize labels if needed.
Participants join via QR/link and enter their name.
Push the first estimation round.
Wait for all participants to select a card.
Reveal the spread and discuss.
Push the next round or reset and repeat.