Planning Poker - Made with Angular and Firebase

What is this?

At Prezi, we worked in a usual SCRUM setup that must be familiar to many software engineers — planning meetings, stand-ups, and retros. During our planning meetings, we estimated projects/cards while sitting around a table and showing hands-on the count of three. This worked well before the pandemic, but as soon as we had to move to Zoom it wasn’t so efficient anymore. It was no longer easy to tell what the consensus was and it was easy to mess up the countdown and fall victim to bias by seeing other teammates’ votes before revealing your own.

In order to have more effective planning meetings, we turned to the internet to find a tool that would allow us to have the same experience of being in the same room together. We tried several apps, and while there are excellent free solutions, they didn’t quite fit with the workflow that we were used to.

So, given that I like creating new projects and thought that making a new planning poker app would be fun, I set out to create planningpoker.live!

Learn more

I wrote an article on Firebase Developers about this app, check it out here.

Development docs

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Contribution

This section is a work in progress.

License

This work is published on Github for educational purposes. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.