A Planning Poker Tool for Supporting Collaborative Estimation in Distributed Agile Development
Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile · CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) · 2011
Estimating and planning are critical to the success of any software project, also in the case of distributed agile development. Previous research has acknowledged that conventional agile methods need to be adjusted when applied in distributed contexts. However, we argue that also new tools are needed for enabling effective distributed agile practices. Here, we present eConference3P, a tool for supporting distributed agile teams who applies the planning poker technique to perform collaborative user story estimation. The planning poker technique builds on the combination of multiple expert opinions, represented using the visual metaphor of poker cards, which results in quick but reliable estimates.