Running your refinement meeting using Planning Poker by Smart Guess

1. Prepare your backlog

In Jira

Before refinement:

1. Make stories “Ready for planning” that will end up in your sprint.

2. Order the stories in your backlog in line with story priority

During your refinement meeting

1. Open your refinement meeting.

2. Ask your team to open the backlog / first story you want to refine

2. Discuss the story, give an Estimate and Show

In Smart Guess

1. Open the Jira issue panel (shown in a red box → )

   1. By selecting the first story in your backlog

2. Discuss the story with your team

   1. Once you are ready to estimate

3. Give a one-click Estimate

   1. Once everyone has given an estimate

4. Show the estimates

   1. click “Show estimates.” button

3. Decide and save the story point value

In Smart Guess

1. Discuss the high and low card values

2. Re-estimate if needed

   1. click “Re-estimate”

3. Save the story point estimate

   1. click “Set story points to X.”

4. Discuss the next story

When I (the team lead) open the next story during refinement

I want my team to open the same story I just opened

So that my team can easily

• follow the story under discussion

• see all the relevant info we have gathered

1. Open “Your settings”

2. Select the “Sharing” option:

The “Sharing” option allows team leads to automatically share a link to the next story up for discussion:

1. See the image to the right →

2. Given certain conditions, learn more