Using planning poker for SAP projects

If the team members have a similar background and can understand each other, we can use the standard way of planning poker. However, and mostly the common situation, team members are from different backgrounds and cannot judge each other's estimations. In such cases, we need to add additional steps. Once each team member (estimator) has selected a card (score), all cards are turned over at the same time except for the card from the expert (topic/story). His card will be turned over last, and only in the case where the estimates are not the same, the group discusses the estimates focusing only on outlying values and understanding the reasoning behind each other's estimate. The expert then explains his ...

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