Get started with Planning Poker Agility

Install the app

1. Open the listingA Jira admin opens Planning Poker Agility on the Atlassian Marketplace, or searches for Planning Poker Agility under Apps in Jira’s settings.
2. Install it on your siteInstall the app on your Jira Cloud site. It is free for everyone on the site.
3. Start using itThere is nothing to configure: the app is ready to use as soon as it is installed.

Where to find it in Jira

• New Jira navigation: open your project’s board, choose More (•••) at the top right and pick Planning Poker Agility.
• Older Jira navigation: choose Planning Poker Agility in the project sidebar.
• Apps menu: Planning Poker Agility opens the Get Started page, with a short interactive guide and a video. To run sessions, open the app from a project as above.

Your first session

1. Open the session listOpening the app in a project shows All sessions. Choose Start new session, or Create first session if there are none yet.
2. ConfigureName the session, choose Public or Private, and pick the card values. Then choose Proceed.
3. Add participantsChoose the Moderator. For a private session, add the participants too. Then choose Proceed.
4. Select issuesPick the Estimation field, then the issues to estimate, and choose Start session.
5. Invite your teamCopy the session’s link with the link icon and share it. In a public session, anyone who opens the link joins as a participant.
6. Estimate togetherThe moderator picks an issue and chooses Start estimations. Everyone picks a card, the votes are revealed, and the moderator saves the agreed estimate to Jira.

The full walk-through is in Create an estimation session and Run a session.

Who can do what

• Anyone who can open the project in Jira can open Planning Poker Agility, create a session and join a public session.
• The app loads issues and saves estimates with your own Jira account, so you see only the issues Jira lets you see, and saving an estimate needs permission to edit the issue.
• In a session, only the moderator starts voting, reveals the votes and saves estimates.
• Only the person who created a session, or its moderator, can edit or delete it.