Category: planing poker

My First Experience with Business Value Poker

December 17, 2008 by Peter Stevens

Last week, I wrote down a new idea about how to determine business value using a variation of planning poker. At the same time, I tried out the method in a real project. How did Business Value Poker survive its first encounter with the real world?

Previously, the two product managers had come up with a list of functions. The dilemma was that Product Manager #1, the manufacturer of the complete system, valued new hardware sales generated by the software. P-M #2, a user of the system, valued operational savings. At the first attempt to prioritize, each manager was given 1000 points to distribute among the functions. The business value was the sum of each party’s vote. This produced a value but no consensus.