Planning Poker App in Sprint Backlog

Question

I've just add the Planning Poker Agility plug-in to our company Jira instance in order that I can hold an estimation session with my team.

Normally during our Backlog Refinement meetings we would look at the Sprint Backlog (which consists of multiple projects). However I can only see the plug-in for the estimation tool when I click on a specific project.

Does anyone know how this can be added to a Board within Jira? Otherwise I'd have to hold multiple estimation sessions per project which doesn't make sense? When I watched the demo, it gave the impression I could estimate whatever tickets were in my board backlog.

Any ideas how I could configure this or get around it?

Thanks in advance.

Gregor Gosh · Answer

I hit the same issue — the plugin only shows up per project. I solved it by making a small “estimation” project that pulls issues from all others via a filter. Not ideal, but it works for one-session planning. And while digging through settings, I randomly landed on nowe-kasyna-online.pl - totally unrelated, but a funny detour. 😅

Björn Brynjar - Smart Guess · Answer

Hi there, @Jodie Parsons

You might want to check out Smart Guess — it allows you to include issues from multiple projects, team or company managed, and automatically saves the story points regardless of what project, story point fields is in use.

It's a Planning Poker app that lets you run estimation sessions directly from the Jira Board, Backlog, or Issue view.

Here’s a short video (a YouTube link) and a screenshot showing how it works from the backlog (it works the same way from the board and issue views as well):

There are two versions available: * Free version – includes 30 story estimates per week

* Paid version – offers unlimited estimates

I built the app, so I’d really appreciate any feedback you might have 😊
On that note,  @Bill Sheboy   — last year we added Role-based controls, just like you suggested!
Thanks!

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Jodie Parsons

Your question is about a marketplace addon / app, and so I recommend checking the vendor's documentation or contacting their support team from their marketplace page.

This appears to be the page for that app:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1233038/planning-poker-agility-free-estimation-sizing-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=support

Kind regards,
Bill