Best Pointing Poker for Jira Alternative: One-Click Estimates Directly from the Backlog

2nd generation tools - Integrated but copied outdated concepts

Today, many Planning Poker vendors have integrated their solutions with tools like Jira, allowing teams to run Planning Poker directly within Jira. The problem is that these tools take the same old concepts from the first-generation solution and apply them directly within Jira. The benefits are minimal because you still need to go through all the unnecessary steps with these tools, meaning they are still wasting your time.

3rd generation - No setup - One Click Planning Poker within the Backlog

With Smart Guess, teams estimate stories within the development Backlog and the native Jira Issue. It is the only tool on the market that takes this approach, and customers are delighted! Why? With Smart Guess, teams skip all of the redundant steps mentioned above. Instead, during preparation, the Scrum master reviews the backlog and gives the stories the team will refine full attention.

Using Smart Guess and the Jira Backlog for estimation requires no setup because Smart Guess keeps your settings from one refinement to the next. Also, with Smart Guess, no invitations need to be sent, as the team simply opens the backlog. Everyone is on the same page when estimating a story with Smart Guess because all story information gathered, designs, decisions, etc., are readily available in Jira.

Suppose you identify a missing story in your discussion. Using Smart Guess, working from the Jira backlog, you quickly add the story and keep going because you are already working from the Jira backlog.

When the team is ready to give an estimate, it's easy:

1. Giving an estimate is One Click.
2. The Team Lead - Shows the estimates with One Click
3. Once the team decides on an estimate - Saving an estimate is One Click

Here is how it works:

Are you using the free version of Pointing Poker?

It might be okay to spend some of your own time. But when a large part of your development organization participates in refinement, and you use a tool that wastes their time every week for a whole year, it quickly adds up.

For a development organization of 200 members, one minute wasted during refinement will cost you more than USD 15K every year. With Smart Guess, teams are saving many times that every year.

Free Planning Poker - Free Forever, With No Estimate Cap

With Free Planning Poker for Jira, every team in your organization can run live, async, and Bucket Estimation sessions right in the Jira backlog, with no limit on how many stories you estimate.

When you want those estimates to tell you when the work will ship, Predictive Planning Poker adds Delivery Forecasting and Flow Intelligence, and it is Atlassian Cloud Fortified. Compare the two on our pricing page.

Comparing multiple tools, only one stands out

It's one thing to claim effectiveness and another to prove it. A customer moving to Smart Guess from an Online Planning Poker tool shared:

"We trialed Smart Guess and many other alternatives across several refinement sessions until we found one we were happy with."

It speaks volumes about Smart Guess, which emerged as the preferred choice after multiple trials - including tools claiming 90,000 active users.

Security and Reliability - Peace of mind for you

Unlike most other providers who host their infrastructure, Smart Guess is built on Atlassian Forge. Forge is the latest development platform created to meet customers' highest Security and Reliability demands. The Forge platform provides built-in security and Atlassian-hosted infrastructure. So, if you trust Atlassian Jira Cloud with tools and data critical for your operation, you already trust the platform Smart Guess is using—peace of mind for you.

In summary

Smart Guess offers a seamless, straightforward, secure, and reliable solution for teams transitioning from First-generation Planning Poker tools. It ensures that the primary focus remains on refining and scoring stories without the unnecessary complexities and wasted time traditional tools mandate.