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title: "About Planning Poker"
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**Improved estimation accuracy**
Planning Poker facilitates collaboration and discussion aimed at consensus-based estimations. It is a planning toolkit that supports interactive and async estimation. | 
**Distributed but together**
During the sessions, team members can voice their estimates unbiasedly and collaborate during group discussions to reach a consensus and achieve more accurate estimates. | 
**Top notch estimation tools**
The app also provides advanced features to help form a balance between the speed of the estimation process and expected accuracy, including multi-field estimation, custom estimation values, reference work items, and more. |
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### How does the game work?
The general idea of Planning Poker is that after a period of discussion, each participant chooses from their own deck the numbered card that represents their estimate of how much work is involved in the story under discussion.
All estimates are kept private until each participant has chosen a card. Then all estimates are revealed, and discussion can begin again.
This is all done inside the user’s Azure DevOps project.