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Poker

Sprint Poker

Estimate together without anchoring.

Pull stories from Linear, Jira, or GitHub. Vote in real time, see who has voted but not what they voted, then reveal together. Sync the final estimate back to the backlog.

What’s inside

The shape of Sprint Poker.

These are the moving parts that make the ritual actually work for distributed teams. No extras — only what changes the feel of the meeting.

  • Four built-in scales: Fibonacci, modified Fibonacci, T-shirts, 5 fingers — plus question / pass cards.
  • Anti-anchoring by default: vote presence is broadcast over SSE, vote values are not — until reveal.
  • Backlog integration via a provider abstraction; Linear ships first, Jira and GitHub on the same shape.
  • Estimate write-back enqueued on a queue with retries, so a flaky provider doesn't block the meeting.
  • Per-meeting realtime channel with Last-Event-ID resume — close your laptop and pick up the votes.
On the roadmap

What’s next.

Honest about what isn’t in v1 yet. Most of these land during the first few sprints after launch.

  • Custom scales (numbers, letters, emoji) and multi-dimensional scales like WSJF.
  • Discussion threads + emoji reactions per story.