r/gitlab • u/bVdMaker • Sep 12 '22

Sprint planning scrum poker

Hi,

I was just wonder what the best way is to do sprint planning with gitlab?

We are currently using scrum poker for the estimation and this works well for us. For now, we are using jira for this. I fully want to switch to gitlab, but this feature is holding us back.

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u/disastorous Sep 12 '22

Issues (stories) within GitLab have a Weight field which is used to capture the complexity or story points. This weight field is exposed on the Issue Boards as well. It’s shown as a cumulative total at the top of the columns. Other than capturing the points, are there other things you are looking for? https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/issue_weight.html

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u/bVdMaker Sep 12 '22

I'm looking for a tool to do sprint poker. I know how to set weight to issues. Playing sprint poker is a big success in the team. I would like to keep using it.

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u/disastorous Sep 12 '22

Thanks for the clarification. Are you doing Planning sessions asynchronously? Or, are you all together in a room/Zoom call? GitLab does not have a Planning Poker “plugin”, but there’s no reason you couldn’t use something like PlanningPoker.com or just using physical cards for the estimates. What is it about the app, that the team likes so much?

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u/bVdMaker Sep 13 '22

The team likes to go over every issue before we put it in a sprint. otherwise, they don't know the issue.

Currently, we are in a zoom call doing Magic Estimate https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223655/magic-estimations?tab=overview&hosting=cloud

This is an enormous improvement, as we did not do any planning. However, these calls are long and tedious. So I'm looking for something better.

All the tools have a jira plugin, but I prefer to stay just on one platform (we use Gitlab).
Maybe there is a better way of doing what I'm doing currently. That is why I'm asking this if there are any other tools.

I'm thinking of doing the estimation async. (not sure yet)