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Planning Poker - a way to Collective Wisdom

Though you will get a lot of content around this topic on the internet. The reason I write about it is that I like this technique, not only because it helps in getting better estimates but also it is a good way of team bonding. What is Estimation? By definition, estimation is an opinion or way of providing an approximation based on the available information. The said information can be incomplete or incorrect or possibly change in the future. That’s why estimates might change based on the available information at any point of time. I presume that you are aware of Agile methodology, such a change in information is expected and welcome. To accommodate such change, every sprint starts with planning to estimate what value can be delivered by the end of the sprint based on available information . What could possibly go wrong with Estimation? Since we are talking in the context of software development, the client could not have all the visualization imagined during the ideation stage. But to