Scrum Poker, Online and Free
Estimate stories together with Fibonacci voting, instant reveal, and a live agreement score — no credit card required.
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Fibonacci scale · votes stay hidden until everyone has voted
Scrum Poker (also called Planning Poker) is how agile teams size work without letting the loudest or most senior voice set the number for everyone else. Each person picks an estimate privately; only once the whole team has voted does anyone see what anyone else chose.
Retromik's version adds a live agreement score to every reveal, so the facilitator can see at a glance which items had real consensus and which ones just have votes that happen to average out — and are worth talking through before you commit to a number.
When to use Scrum Poker
- Sprint planning, when the team needs relative story-point estimates before committing to a sprint
- Backlog refinement, to size new stories before they're ready to pull into a sprint
- A new team establishing a shared sense of scale — what a "5" means versus an "8"
- Remote or distributed teams who can't pass physical cards around a table
How to run it in Retromik
- 1
Create a Scrum Poker session
Start a session and add the stories or tickets you want to estimate — paste them in one at a time or in bulk.
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Share the link
Send the session link to your team. Participants join as guests and don't need an account.
- 3
Vote simultaneously
Everyone picks a Fibonacci card at the same time. Votes stay hidden until the whole team has voted, so nobody anchors on the first number called out.
- 4
Reveal and check agreement
All votes flip at once, alongside a live agreement score — a quick read on how aligned the team actually is, not just the average.
- 5
Discuss the outliers
When votes diverge, the highest and lowest voters explain their reasoning first — that's usually where the real information is.
- 6
Lock the estimate and move on
The facilitator accepts a final value (exact consensus or the nearest Fibonacci number) and the team moves to the next item.
Frequently asked questions
What is Scrum Poker?
Scrum Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique where every team member privately picks a card representing their estimate for a story, then everyone reveals at the same time. Voting simultaneously (instead of calling out numbers) stops the first or loudest opinion from anchoring everyone else's guess.
What's the difference between Scrum Poker and Planning Poker?
None — they're the same technique under two common names. "Planning Poker" is the original name; "Scrum Poker" is the more common term inside Scrum teams specifically. Retromik supports both under the one feature.
Why does Scrum Poker use the Fibonacci sequence?
The gaps between Fibonacci numbers (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21) grow as the numbers get bigger, which matches how hard it actually is to estimate large work precisely. It forces a real decision between, say, a 5 and an 8, instead of debating whether something is a 6 or a 7 — a distinction that isn't meaningful at that size.
Is Retromik's Scrum Poker really free?
Yes. Scrum Poker is included at no cost, with no session limits and no credit card required — the same free workspace you use for retrospectives.
Do participants need to create an account?
No. Share the session link and participants join instantly as guests. Only the person creating the workspace needs an account.
What does the agreement score mean?
It's a live percentage showing how closely the team's votes for an item actually cluster together — a full spread of low and high votes scores lower than a tight cluster, even if the average estimate looks the same. It's a quick signal for which items need more discussion before you lock an estimate.
Also running a retrospective?
Scrum Poker lives in the same free workspace as Retromik's retrospective templates — Start-Stop-Continue, Sailboat, 5 Whys, and more.
Estimate your next sprint with Scrum Poker
Create the session in under a minute, share the link, and your team votes anonymously — no accounts needed for participants.
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