Planning Poker Free

Planning Poker, also known as Scrum Poker, is a lightweight, collaborative agile estimation tool, designed to make project planning more efficient and engaging.

This self-hosted, open-source version brings the simplicity and power of Planning Poker directly to your team, allowing you to customize and scale it as needed!

Quickstart

Run the application locally with Docker:

make start

This command builds the Docker image and runs the application at http://localhost:8000.

To stop the application and free port 8000, run:

make stop

To run unit tests in Docker container:

make test-unit

To use it together with your team, deploy the service as a Docker image to any hosting.

Motivation

Finding convenient solutions for Planning Poker can be challenging, as most useful tools are paid.

This project aims to fill that gap by providing a free, open-source alternative with a minimal yet essential set of features.

Originally started as a hackathon project, it has evolved into a fully functional and ready-to-use open-source tool for agile teams.

Development

Please start by reviewing the current limitations and development recommendations.

Existing Limitations

• No JavaScript framework is currently used for the frontend.
• Very simple but inefficient synchronous web-server is used.
• Lack of robust data type validation on the backend.

Recommendations

If you want to create more complex product from this project, I recommend you to implement the following improvements before adding new features.

Backend Enhancements:

• Implement data validation using a framework such as pydantic or Marshmallow.
• Consider switching to an asynchronous, modern and more powerful web-framework like FastAPI or at least switching to ASGI with uvicorn.
• Transition to a relational DBMS like PostgreSQL to ensure scalability and data integrity. Connect to a DBMS using an ORM library like SQLAlchemy.

Frontend Improvements:

• Migrate the frontend to a modern Single Page Application (SPA) framework such as React, Vue.js, or Svelte for better maintainability.
• Adopt a CSS framework like Tailwind CSS to simplify styling and ensure a consistent, professional design.

Further development

Product features I consider useful to implement for better user experience:

1. Add the ability to specify a list of cards to be estimated.
2. Improve the UX for the voting process: add animation for the “Reveal” button, include a countdown timer before revealing results, prevent revealing cards until a vote is cast, and arrange the cards aesthetically around the table.
3. Add authorization and user profiles with options to log in and log out.
4. Multiple deck types: Fibonacci, modified Fibonacci, T-Shirt sizes, powers of 2, etc.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software under the terms of the license.