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Planning poker is a consensus-based estimation technique used by agile teams to size user stories and tasks. Each team member privately picks a card representing their estimate, everyone reveals at once, and the team discusses any disagreements before agreeing on a final number. It is also known as scrum poker or agile poker, and is commonly used during sprint planning and backlog refinement.

Yes. Scrum poker, planning poker, and agile poker all refer to the same estimation technique. The different names exist because the practice is used across many agile frameworks — Scrum teams tend to call it scrum poker, while the broader agile community often calls it planning poker. Othecos Scrum Poker works for any of these workflows.

With Othecos Scrum Poker, a facilitator starts a room — no account required — and shares the link with the team. Each voter picks a display name and joins instantly. The facilitator announces a topic, everyone casts a vote privately, and the facilitator reveals whenever the team is ready (you do not have to wait for every vote). If the team disagrees, they discuss and revote. Once consensus is reached, the final estimate is recorded in the round history.

The Fibonacci deck (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, plus unknown and break cards) is the most common choice for planning poker because its growing gaps discourage false precision on large stories. T-shirt sizes (XS through XXL) work well for early-stage estimation when the team is not ready to commit to numbers. Powers of 2 (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, plus unknown and break cards) is a good fit for teams that think in doubling increments. Pro users can also create fully custom decks.

Yes. Click "Start a Room" and you are in a live, shareable planning poker room in seconds — no signup, no form to fill in. Guest rooms are sized for a single team and last 24 hours, which is plenty for a one-off estimation session. When you want to keep a room — along with its round history and exports — sign up free and claim it in one click; nothing is lost.

No. Nobody needs an account to vote, and you do not even need one to start a room — guest rooms are created with no signup at all. Everyone joins with just a display name and the room link, which keeps scrum poker sessions frictionless for guests, contractors, and cross-team collaborators.

Yes — Othecos Scrum Poker was built for distributed agile teams. Votes sync in real time over WebSocket, so remote teams see who has voted the moment they vote, and reveal the results together. Pair it with your favorite video call and you have a full remote sprint planning setup.

When the team disagrees after revealing their votes, the facilitator can start a revote on the same topic with a single click. Every revote is tracked in the round history, so you can see how the estimate evolved as the discussion progressed — useful for retrospectives and for calibrating the team over time.

Yes. The free plan includes up to 10 active rooms, 10 participants per room, all standard decks, and 30 days of round history — enough for many small agile teams. The Pro plan adds unlimited rooms, 25 participants per room, custom decks, room presets, unlimited history, and CSV / Markdown / MCP exports.

No. Only the person who creates the room needs a plan — everyone else joins free with just a display name. In-room features follow the room owner's plan, so a single Pro subscription covers a room of up to 25 people. There are no per-seat fees.