One of the popular mechanisms to estimate story points as a team is planning poker exercise.
It’s an awesome technique but it may become a challenge for some teams. For instance, a team estimates story points separately as developers and testers. Later, they add up those points to arrive at resultant estimates.
Some teams get into endless discussions to ascertain if the estimate should have been 2 or 3, 5 or 8 or maybe 7.
It looks like, the primary goal of planning poker exercise is to arrive at the correct estimate.
But that’s not the point!
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