Cards Set 3-7 persons – For Agile companies to effectively delegate responsibilities in the team – Agile Management 3.0 – ENGLISH Version
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As a team, estimating and decision-making can be tricky. Not so with Ulassa! Create moments of great interactive fun by using one of our agile card decks.
As a team, estimating and decision-making can be tricky. Not so with Ulassa! Create moments of great interactive fun by using one of our agile card decks.
Planning Poker, also known as Scrum Poker, is an intelligently crafted, team-based method of optimising project flow and concrete task distribution within developer teams. Planning Poker was designed to help specifically with effort estimation, which forms a significant part of any Scrum for professional project planning in software development. The agile poker deck is a fun way to help teams generate optimal output and ensure excellent product backlog maintenance. Agile Planning Poker is a completely different method of tackling the traditionally rigid task of project management, as it allows for an agile approach using existing requirements and resources. Continuous communication between all involved is essential: from the developer team to the Scrum Master and the Product Owner (PO), to stakeholders and their constant flow of new requirements.
Agile project management favours a holistic approach – taking into account the wishes of the stakeholders, the PO’s vision and all resources at the team’s disposal. Scrum Poker brings everybody together around the table to have fun while establishing all necessary information, drawing up the status quo for a project and clarifying the all-important effort estimation. This allows teams to react quickly to changes or new requirements, whether stakeholder requests or new demands brought about by changes in the market. Tasks within the team can also be redistributed in Sprint planning with no noticeable losses, and feedback loops can be kept small.
Planning Poker helps teams to generate optimum output first and foremost by ensuring developers’ specific abilities can be utilised in full. Each employee has his or her own field of expertise, experiences and perspectives to offer regarding user stories and features. Ulassa Planning Poker cards use these to establish continuous communication and figure out which developer would be most qualified to tackle which user story. The game uses the intrinsic proficiencies of all involved, as each player starts by making their own hidden estimations themselves, laying their chosen hand face-down without showing it to the others. This removes any kind of ‘anchoring bias’, or the unconscious sway of other people’s points of view over one’s own.
Planning Poker not only makes project management more agile: it also helps to establish boundaries. Thanks to regular and open communication in the Scrum, the Product Owner can intervene early before the team becomes overburdened and before efficiency becomes compromised by new requirements. The game helps put a project management strategy into place rapidly – all while keeping it realistically planned and tailoring it perfectly to your team.
In addition to optimised task distribution, the game also boosts team motivation. As individual user stories are taken on by developers using the PULL principle rather than PUSH, task distribution develops in a way tailored specifically to the resources at hand. Individual capacities, fields of expertise and even preferences regarding subject areas are automatically taken into account. Scrum Poker therefore not only makes a more efficient developer team, but also a happier one.
The task distribution process ensures that everybody plays to their strengths as much as possible, that everybody is included in the process, and that all team members pull together. It creates a transparent way of working with clear areas of responsibility. Planning Poker is an exciting analogue activity that provides variety and offers a haptic alternative to day-to-day digital work.
Planning Poker is the perfect tool for enabling the implementation of agile project management within a company. Both IT enterprises and developers benefit from the fact that agile project management creates an optimised workflow and ensures all requirements in a project are met: the prompt handling of a user story, timely completion of the most valuable user story at a particular time, and high-quality processing of any user story. Both potential risks and desired outcome are taken into account. The key prerequisite for succeeding with Planning Poker is that everybody involved must have an agile mindset throughout the process – including the stakeholders.
Is your team overburdened? Is the quality of your user stories suffering? Does your product backlog now block the light at the end of the tunnel? If the Product Owner has long since lost control of the Scrum, Planning Poker offers an innovative way to optimise the Scrum process while working in a structured yet flexible way that can be sustained in the long term.
The optimised outcome will start to become clear in just a few Sprints. After a short familiarisation period for employees, the new Scrum processes created using Planning Poker will increase both the flexibility and the quality of the project, in addition to minimising risk (e.g. of technical debt).
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