Get started with SprintPoker for Azure DevOps

Install the extension

1. Open the listingOpen SprintPoker for Azure DevOps on the Visual Studio Marketplace and choose Get it free.
2. Install it in your organizationChoose your Azure DevOps organization and install it. Installing an extension takes a member of the organization’s Project Collection Administrators group; anyone else can ask for it instead.
3. Open SprintPokerIn a project, open Boards, then SprintPoker.

Where SprintPoker appears in Azure DevOps

• Boards, SprintPoker: the SprintPoker Dashboard, with the project’s sessions and Create Session.
• A work item: the SprintPoker panel in the work item form, for Quick Estimation.
• Work item menus: Estimate in SprintPoker, on a work item’s menu and toolbar, and on backlog and query result menus. It opens Create Session, and the work items you chose come already ticked when you pick the session’s work items.
• The Dashboard’s settings button: Work Item Type Settings, each work item type’s estimation field and card values. See Settings for a project.
• Project settings, Extensions, SprintPoker: the General settings page, where a project chooses whether the panel and the menu entry show. See Settings for a project.

Your first session

1. Create a sessionOn the SprintPoker Dashboard, choose Create Session. Pick Poker or Async Poker, name the session and choose its settings, then choose Next.
2. Choose the work itemsTick the work items to estimate, then choose Start Session.
3. Estimate togetherShare the session with your team. Everyone picks a card, the moderator reveals the votes and saves the agreed estimate to Azure DevOps.

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

Who can do what

• Anyone who can open SprintPoker in a project can create a session there.
• In a session, people are a Moderator, a Participant or an Observer. See Run a session.
• Anyone who can open SprintPoker in a project can change its Work Item Type Settings. Showing or hiding the panel and the menu entry may need a Project Administrator. See Settings for a project.
• SprintPoker reads and changes work items as you, so Azure DevOps’s own permissions apply. Saving an estimate writes it to the work item’s estimation field, so Azure DevOps’s own rules for that field apply.