How to be more focused in remote planning poker sessions!

Lets be honest, when your team is working remote, not everybody is as focused in meetings, as it would be most efficient.
If you are still wondering why, there are many factors which keeps your team distracted: working on a ticket, reading an article, chatting with co-workers, answering the the door, pets, ... I think you will get an idea.

In some cases, the current discussed ticket is not even on the screen, since your team is using a not-ticket-related online poker room.

This is were Alright Agile's Estimation Poker for Jira closes the gap.

Our Jira cloud poker plugin, is always connected to the ticket of your scrum planning session. To participate in the ticket / task estimation, members must be logged into Jira and have the ticket opened up on their screens.

This helps a lot to get the focus on the ticket or task.

Asume, not everybody has the same idea of a task. This will become transparent, when story points are far spread e.g. 2 vs 8.
If this is the case, our planning poker plugin gives your team guidance on what to do next.
Its an easy process: the member with the lowest estimation explains their understanding of the tasks to the one with the highest estimation and the other way around.

Unknown issues will come to focus or imagined problems will even by eliminated.

If both are right, make sure to find a common understanding of the tasks. If necessary split the tasks into new tickets, to keep the workload slim.

If you are logged into your Jira cloud space, you will find our plugin at Jira's Marketplace.

After you installed the plugin, you will find each scrum poker room on the right sided context menu at every task.

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