Estimation poker · Free on every plan
Free online estimation pokerEstimate together, right on the card.
Secret votes, one shared reveal, and the agreed estimate saved directly on your card. Perfect for refinement and sprint planning, whether your team is remote or all in one room.
How a session works
Start from any card
Open the estimate control on a card and click “Start estimation”. The session runs inside the card itself — no separate app, no invite link to pass around.
Vote in secret
Everyone picks a poker pill on the Fibonacci scale — 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, or “?”. Votes stay hidden until the reveal; teammates only see who has voted.
Reveal, agree, save
The conductor ends the voting: every vote is shown with the min, average, and max, and the closest standard estimate is suggested. Revote if you're split — or save, and the estimate lands on the card.
Built for honest estimates
Secret until the reveal
Nobody sees a number until everyone has voted, so the first loud opinion can't anchor the room.
One fixed Fibonacci scale
0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and “?”. We picked the scale so your team doesn't have to — zero configuration, one shared language.
Made for remote refinement
Votes, reveals, and the final estimate sync live for everyone, wherever they sit — no more holding fingers up to a webcam mid-call. Just as good with the whole team in one room.
The estimate lives on the card
The saved value shows as a pill on the board card and in the sidebar — there's nothing to copy back into a tracker, because the poker table is the tracker.
Conductor-led sessions
Whoever starts the session holds the crown: only the conductor can end the voting, restart it, or save — so reveals never happen early.
Quick-set when you don't need a vote
Obvious one-pointer? Pick the value directly on the card and skip the ceremony entirely.
What is estimation poker?
Estimation poker — also called scrum poker — is a consensus technique for sizing work as a team, used in sprint planning and backlog refinement ceremonies. Everyone estimates the same task at the same time and votes in secret, so nobody's number is anchored by the loudest voice in the room. When the votes are revealed together, the spread is the point: a card that gets a 2 from one teammate and an 8 from another has just surfaced a hidden assumption worth talking about before the sprint starts, not after.
Most teams run it with a standalone poker app in a second tab — or, on a remote planning call, by holding fingers up to the camera — then copy the agreed numbers back into their tracker by hand. In AgileHero the session runs on the card itself: the vote happens where the work lives, and saving the consensus stamps the estimate straight onto the card — visible on the board, in the sidebar, and to everyone, instantly.
What are story points?
Story points are the unit most agile teams estimate in: a relative measure of a task's size — effort, complexity, and uncertainty folded into one number — rather than hours on a clock. A login form might be a 2; migrating the billing system is a 13. The values only mean something in comparison to each other, and that is exactly why they work: people are bad at guessing hours and surprisingly good at agreeing that this task is roughly twice that one.
It is also why story points use the Fibonacci scale — 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. The growing gaps force a choice: a card cannot be "about a 6.5", it is a 5 or an 8, and the argument between those two is where hidden assumptions surface. And you don't calculate story points — you agree on them. That is what a story-point poker session is for: everyone sizes the same card in secret, the reveal shows the spread, and the team converges. In AgileHero the agreed value saves straight onto the card, and the velocity chart is measured in the same points.
Sprint planning with estimation poker
Sprint planning is the ceremony where the team decides what fits into the next sprint — and it goes fastest when every candidate card already carries an estimate the whole team believes. That is the real work of backlog refinement: a short recurring meeting where upcoming cards get discussed, split when they are too big, and sized. Estimation poker is the sizing half of that meeting, built in.
A typical rhythm in AgileHero: triage rough ideas in the backlog, refine the top of it with a quick session per card, then pull the agreed-size cards onto the board for the coming sprint — and glance at the velocity chart to sanity-check the total against what the team actually finished in past intervals. Planning, estimation, and the board are one product, so the ceremony ends with work ready to start, not with numbers to copy somewhere.
Common questions
Is estimation poker free in AgileHero?
Yes — estimation poker is included on every plan, including the Free plan, and is never premium-gated. Every plan comes with 2 seats free forever; voting needs a member seat with write access, so read-only observers can't vote.
What scale does AgileHero's estimation poker use?
A fixed Fibonacci scale: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, plus a “?” pill for “I genuinely don't know”. The scale isn't configurable by design — every team estimates in the same shared language, with zero setup.
How does a session work?
Anyone opens the estimate control on a card and starts a session. Everyone votes in secret; the conductor who started the session ends the voting, which reveals all votes with the min, average, and max and suggests the closest standard estimate. The conductor can trigger a revote or save the agreed value straight onto the card.
Does it work for remote teams?
That's where it shines. Everyone votes from their own screen during a refinement or sprint planning call, votes stay hidden until the reveal, and the result syncs live for every participant — no holding fingers up to the camera on Zoom or Teams. In-office teams run it exactly the same way.
Do we need a separate poker tool or a plugin?
No. The session runs inside the card on your board, and the saved estimate is stamped on that card — there is no separate poker app, browser tab, or plugin, and nothing to sync back into a tracker afterwards.
Can we set estimates without running a session?
Yes — the same control lets anyone with write access pick an estimate value directly on the card, no session needed.
What is a backlog refinement meeting?
A short recurring session — many teams run 30–60 minutes once a week — where upcoming backlog items get clarified, split when they are too big, and estimated, so sprint planning starts from sized, understood work. In AgileHero, refinement happens where the backlog lives: open a card, run an estimation session, save — and the estimate is on the card when planning day comes.
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