Planning Poker
Run Fibonacci or T-shirt sizing planning poker with your team: pass-the-phone or one-screen reveal, picks stay hidden until everyone's in, then flip together and see the spread. Works offline.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- List your team's voters, one per line, then choose a Fibonacci or T-shirt card deck and a pass-the-phone or one-screen mode.
- In pass-the-phone mode, hand the device to each person in turn to pick a card in private; in one-screen mode, tap each voter's name then their called-out pick.
- Once every voter has picked, tap Reveal All — every estimate flips into view at the same moment, never one at a time.
- Read the spread (min, max, median, mode) and consensus signal, discuss any outliers, then tap Re-vote to run another round with the same team.
Planning Poker keeps sprint estimation honest by hiding every vote until the whole team is ready. Pick a Fibonacci deck (0 through 21, plus a question mark and infinity for outliers) or a T-shirt deck (XS to XL) depending on how your team likes to size work. Choose pass-the-phone mode when everyone shares one device, or one-screen mode where a host taps each teammate's called-out pick — either way, nobody sees a single estimate until the last vote is in and the whole board flips at once. After the reveal you get the min, max, median and mode instantly, plus a clear consensus signal when everyone lands on the same card, so the team can jump straight into discussing outliers instead of arguing about who saw what first.
Frequently asked questions
- Can a teammate see someone else's pick before the reveal?
- No. Before reveal, the interface only ever shows whether a person has picked yet, never what they picked — the value only enters the page once every voter is in and Reveal All is tapped, flipping all cards together.
- What's the difference between pass-the-phone and one-screen mode?
- Pass-the-phone hands a single device around so each teammate privately taps their own card; one-screen mode keeps the device with a host, who taps each person's name and then records the card they call out loud, useful for remote calls where phones can't be passed.
- How is the spread calculated when we use T-shirt sizes instead of numbers?
- Min, max and median only apply to numeric Fibonacci picks, since T-shirt sizes and symbols like ? or infinity aren't orderable; the mode (most common pick) still works for either deck and is what drives the consensus signal.