StoryPlan helps you efficiently estimate agile stories by helping you conduct Planning Poker right inside your Slack channel. No need to send individual DMs, or juggling through a myriad of tools. Everything happens where your team lives, your Slack project channel.
30,000+ people use StoryPlan everyday to participate in Planning Pokers
Are you still asking your whole team to physically be present in a room to run your story planning sessions? Or you have been trying through different story estimation apps, but got tired of all the context switching it requires? StoryPlan is here to help you get rid of those problems.
Your channel of communcation is Slack, that's where your team is already present
and chatting. You need a tool that complements the team's presence and supports them in their
conversations.
StoryPlan is made keeping security and privacy as its core. We only store the data that is absolutely necessary for the functioning of the app. All our data is stored using strong encryption, at rest as well as at movement. A good number of fortune 500 companies trust us, you are in a good company.
StoryPlan is battle tested to work in all possible sizes of channels. We have specifically baked functionalities to aid organizations using Enterprise Grid on Slack. This means, you can use StoryPlan without a hitch in shared channels. All the data we store stays always encrypted.
“StoryPlan is very quick and easy to setup. The time it took our team to conduct a Planning Poker session decreased by 2x after we started using it. We especially love the story graphs it generates."
StoryPlan's workflow makes it super easy to author a new story. Once installed, type /storyplan
in Slack to open our friendly dialogue and visually select all the options to create a story. All options
follow sensible defaults.
/storyplan opens story dialogue/storyplan [story title] prepopulates the dialogueLess effort, win! You can easily convert an existing message on a Slack channel, into a StoryPlan story. If there is a link, StoryPlan will automatically pickup the title and the description.
You are not tied to only one scale. Select from a variety of options available. This includes mountain goat softwares flavoured modified fibonacci, linear and t-shirt size scales..
Stories are presented for estimation in a simple compact view. As people in your team place their votes, the panel updates automatically. Once the whole team has voted, results are displayed.
Results are displayed with all the important information in a glorious graph view. This gives a clear idea on the sizing of the story. StoryPlan is a scrummaster's best friend.
StoryPlan lets you easily export all the Planning Poker stories you have estimated in Slack. You get a perfectly formatted CSV file that you can later use in the application of your choice, whether it is Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Jira or Trello.
CSVStoryPlan comes with a set of configurable options. If there is something that you don't like you can change it. Alter defaults, make it your own.
It's possible that your team wouldn't arrive at a consensus after one round. In that case, repointing the story is just a button click away.
Our interface promotes a dialogue. Comments provide a context and if the team is not on the same page about sizing of an agile story, new comments can be added into the thread.
“We never knew a Planning Poker could be so much fun. We were using [name redacted] earlier, but it required a lot of sync up and moving away from Slack. With StoryPlan, it's all become very simple. We do one planning session every week with StoryPlan."
Since we started using StoryPlan, our time spent in estimating stories has reduced by almost 80%. In our workflow, we usually post links to JIRA stories in a Slack channel, and StoryPlan converts them into agile stories to be pointed."
Our team moved to remote culture after Covid-19 hit the entire country. We were looking for a tool do replace our physical planning sessions that we did earlier. We were surprised to see how efficiently StoryPlan was able to fill the gaps in our workflow. In fact, it made us more productive.
“StoryPlan lets us spend less time in sprints and more time in implementation. In short, it is a scrummaster's best friend."
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Our basic plan for small agile teams
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“StoryPlan lets us spend less time in sprints and more time in implementation. In short, it is a scrummaster's best friend."
