Planning Poker

The idea for the Planning Poker app came to life during the 2020 Covid pandemic with the aim to provide agile teams with an easy way to perform their planning poker sessions from the safety of their homes. It was developed with flexibility and extensibility in mind. Powered by a Django backend and a frontend written in Vue.js.

Features

• 🔍 This app comes with an easy-to-use interface and provides all the necessary data for estimating the scope of your stories on a single page.
• 🗳️ The users are separated into voters and moderators who see and do different things during a session. See roles for more information.
• 👥 See who participates in your session via a live updated list of participants.
• 🌙 Natively supported dark mode.

Screenshots

You can see all the necessary information on a single page

Live updated list of participants

Natively supported dark mode

Quickstart

Basic understanding of Python and Django is not required but definitely recommended before you start installing this application.

Do you have Django installed? Follow these steps here if you haven't.

Following these steps will give you a site which you can use to test the Planning Poker App.

1. Have an existing project where you want to include the Planning Poker app or create a new one.

   $ django-admin startproject planning_poker_site
   

2. Install the app via pip.

   $ pip install planning-poker
   

3. Configure your settings. They are located in planning_poker_site/settings.py if you chose to setup a new project. You'll find the minimal settings required for the Planning Poker app below. See configuration for more ways to customize the application to fit your needs.

   ...
   
   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'django.contrib.humanize',
       'channels',
       'planning_poker.apps.ChannelsPresenceConfig',
       'planning_poker'
   ]
   
   ASGI_APPLICATION = 'planning_poker_site.routing.application'
   
   # This is not the optimal channel layer and should not be used for production.
   # See https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/stable/topics/channel_layers.html for an alternative.
   CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
       'default': {
           'BACKEND': 'channels.layers.InMemoryChannelLayer'
       }
   }
   
   LOGIN_URL = 'admin:login'
   LOGOUT_URL = 'admin:logout'

4. Create a routing.py with the following content.

   from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter
   from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack
   import planning_poker.routing
   
   application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
       'websocket': AuthMiddlewareStack(URLRouter(planning_poker.routing.websocket_urlpatterns)),
   })

5. Include planning_poker's URLs in your urls which can be found in planning-poker-site/urls.py in the fresh project.

   from django.contrib import admin
   from django.urls import include, path
   from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
   
   urlpatterns = [
       path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
       # The first entry isn't needed but nice to have if the sole purpose of this project is serving the Planning Poker app.
       path('', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='planning_poker:index'), name='redirect_to_poker_index'),
       path('poker/', include('planning_poker.urls')),
   ]

6. Run the migrations.

   $ python manage.py migrate
   

7. You can now start your server.

   $ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
   

See the user documentation for more information on how to use the Planning Poker app.