# PlanITpoker Reviews **Vendor:** CodeFirst **Category:** [Project Management Tools Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/project-management-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 8 ## About PlanITpoker Agile project estimation tool for distributed teams ## PlanITpoker Reviews ### 1. Best Open source online tool for team colloboration on work estimation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** It has a straightforward user interface and easy to access by team members on different location. Helps to understand potential risks and task complexity Anonymys and simultaneous estimate reduce biasing on the tasks Easily integrate with many well versed agile tool like jira It also allows customizing the card decks like fibonacci or tshirt as per team's convinience **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** It has limited features on detailed analysis and reporting when compared to other tools It always requires stable internet connection since its an online tool It also requires a skilled facillitator who understand the basic features to run planning session smoothly Not suitable for non-agile methadologies. **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Estimation of work items that assigned to the team anonymously with collaboration. ### 2. PlanITpoker: Dealing Out Agile Success – One Point at a Time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason L. | Full Stack Engineer I, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2024 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** PlanITpoker is an excellent help that we use within our arsenal of agile tools, and it helps dispersed teams like ours. We have multiple remote and offshore team members. It has an intuitive user interface and good integration with Microsoft Teams. It provides a space where we can all collaborate in real time, allowing us to contribute without worrying about what others think or say. This collaboration feature leads to more accurate pointing of stories and tasks and keeping it like a game with the pointing of the cards, which helps us have a little fun to mix into the day. **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** PlanITPoker is outstanding; however, there is always room for improvement. While the real-time collaboration is excellent, I wish they had more features for asynchronous work, where team members in different time zones could contribute to varying estimates of cards without needing to be online at the same time as others. Also, while the simplicity of PlanITPoker is a plus, I would love to see more advanced features like detailed analytics on past estimations or other advanced features that would open up more tools for developers in their planning and pointing sessions. **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** PlanITpoker helps us to accurately and quickly point out our stories and other cards, which estimate the complexity and time it will take to complete a certain task. ### 3. Sprint Planning gets Interesting with PlanITPoker **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farooq S. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2022 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** The involvement of the whole team, which involves the Dev, QA and Project manager to size the User-Stories, the tool makes it fun as it allows every participant to give the number and the other participant comes to know only when the PM turns the cards. The involvement of sizing by providing the number makes the tool simple and quite exciting and gives a funny space to debate on why the sizing is high or low. **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** The timer, a built-in feature of the tool, should be optional rather than a timer. It should not allow the PM to proceed further until all the participant provides their input against the user stories. **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, we are using it to size the user stories as part of the sprint planning, where mostly the Dev and QA give their estimation to complete the tasks. Also, it provides a high-level overview to the PM on the velocity and commitments of the sprints. ### 4. Makes the Grooming session interesting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2022 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** The only reason I attend the grooming session is because of the planet poker tool, it makes the grooming session very interesting; the way the user interface is built and takes the response from all the participants makes it quite interesting, I like the button flip the cards, especially which gives the result of all the participants. **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** Once the user provides the points to the respective user story or ticket or technical user story should allow the user to edit the points voted by requesting the moderator and some of the topics mentioned in the plan it poker are unrealistic, like 100, which is just impossible in the agile world. **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are grooming sessions and providing the estimations for the QA and the DEV effort on the assigned user stories/technical stories/enhancement or tickets from all the participants. ### 5. Great app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lakshmikanth Reddy C. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** It helps to estimate the projects easily **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** Not so much... There is nothing to dislike it **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project planning plays a major role in any industry in particular IT industry. It helps me a lot ### 6. Simple Planning Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** I like that you can setup your sprint planning meeting beforehand and stack rank the stories and then once meeting time comes all you need is to go through as much of the list as possible. There are a number of really good features around it as well with showing the amount of time on story, skipping, re-voting and averaging the values. It also keeps a record of your estimations so that you can enter them in your tool of choice later. **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** Though I think this is an ok problem it is not directly tied to your velocity or the tool that you use to track your stories. So this means that you have to do some level of manual setup but in general this is not a big deal. **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Planning for sprints. ### 7. Gets the job done easily **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** I think the interface is quite nice. Puts a fun spin on what can be a pretty boring task, without going overboard and getting too goofy. Also easily gets many team members on without any complicated login processes. Makes sprint planning faster and easier by allowing quick customization to stories, points, etc. **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** Nothing specific. I don't use a ton of features since I don't need them where I'm using the product. **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using PlanITpoker to do sprint planning for a couple agile teams. Easy to switch from team to team and make sure we don't have to log into different sessions for each one. Allows us to use our time more efficiently. ### 8. Simple and free project estimation application **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about PlanITpoker?** It's very easy to use, as a user you get invited to a board and aren't swamped with too many options. The story is presented and your team can vote with basic cards. **What do you dislike about PlanITpoker?** There isn't much to properly dislike, its minimal barriers of entry to use it make it accessible. But also feels very basic to use, which isn't always a plus. **What problems is PlanITpoker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our team can quickly be presented with stories, and can vote on them privately until everyone has voted and we can come to a common consensus on what a story should be rated. - [View PlanITpoker pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/planitpoker/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+14%3A26%3A11+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ef242e36-22bd-48e7-9d35-d9bc83446209&secure%5Btoken%5D=f7002c7716222b22b29608579249807c56ed7fe36234322d7a4c54c36bc87aab&format=llm_user) ## Top PlanITpoker Alternatives - [Gmelius](https://www.g2.com/products/gmelius/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (756 reviews) - [Zoho Sprints](https://www.g2.com/products/zoho-sprints/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (176 reviews) - [Reclaim.ai](https://www.g2.com/products/reclaim-ai/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (138 reviews)