Vote.
Reveal.→
Ship.

Planning poker — also called scrum poker — is a consensus-based agile estimation technique where every team member votes a Fibonacci story point value privately, then reveals simultaneously. The simultaneous reveal is the magic: it kills anchoring bias, surfaces hidden complexity, and gives quiet engineers as much voice as the loudest senior. Originally described by James Grenning in 2002 and popularized by Mike Cohn, planning poker is now the default story estimation technique for scrum teams, kanban teams, SAFe trains, and pretty much every distributed agile team that needs sprint capacity to actually mean something.

ScrumChamps is a free planning poker tool built specifically for remote and hybrid teams. Open a poker room, share the URL, and your whole team votes Fibonacci story points (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100, ?) in real time. No accounts, no Jira plugins, no "3 free sessions per month" trial walls. Just sub-second voting, a clean reveal, vote statistics (average, median, std dev), and a story queue you can drive an entire sprint planning meeting from. Use it for sprint planning, backlog refinement, PI planning, t-shirt sizing — any agile ceremony that needs the team to converge on a number without one person dominating the room.

Pair the planning poker tool with our written guides on what planning poker is, how to run a planning poker session, story points explained, and Fibonacci vs t-shirt sizing. Together they cover the full estimation toolkit your scrum team needs.