Axones created a planning poker application using Adobe Air and Flex technologies to be portable across mobile terminals and devices. The application allows for collaborative planning poker sessions between remote users. It provides features like project and task creation, user assignment, voting sessions where users can select complexity estimates, and allowing the scrum master to view votes and assign final estimates. The application is meant to improve collaboration beyond a single device or location.

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2. The context
Axones decided to participate in the Challenge launched by Adobe: The Adobe
Mobile Challenge.
The idea is to create an application based on Adobe Air technology and using a
Flex framework. This application would be portable on many mobile terminals
(smartphone & tablets).
We took this opportunity to imagine an application facilitating the management of
Agile projects.
Indeed Axones chose to create an application for Planning Poker.
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3. Summary
What is the Planning Poker ?
Interest of a multi-platform application
How to use it
How it works
Bug report
Upcoming features
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4. What is the Planning Poker
� The planning poker is a fun and effective way to produce estimates of the
complexity of features to be developed as part of a project with agile methods.
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� How it works :
� The Scrum master creates the project, tasks and users participating to the
Planning Poker.
� When the poker is started, each participant is asked to give a note of
complexity to the task presented.
� Then the Scrum master displays the votes, he arbitrates by assigning the
appropriate rating.
This is how all the project tasks are evaluated and prioritized in a typical agile
project.
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5. Interest of a multi-platform application
Anyone can access the application, which is completely identical regardless of the terminal thanks to
technologies Air and Flex.
In our business, mobility is essential, employees are not always in the office.
But everyone has a mean of communication: laptops, mobile, shelves ...
That’s why Pocket Agile became interested in multi-platform but also for remote collaboration!
With the application we can work collaboratively from anywhere and through any terminal !
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6. Existing poker planning applications
� Today, several applications to do planning poker already exists in the
various AppStores
� They are limited in the sense that:
� You use your terminal as a card deck, to show others your quotation around
a table
� It is based on a single terminal
� What we propose is fundamentally different:
� All platforms supported by Adobe Air/Flex are available, so users are not
restricted on a single terminal
� The application has a collaborative back end supported by LCDS which
allow remote quotations
� Users are no longer required to sit in the same room
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7. How to use it
� To Do :
You need to register to access to the application.
Registration just took few seconds and you immediately (No email check
needed) access to Pocket Agile.
Fill in your Display Name, Email, Password and Confirmation of your password.
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8. How to use it
Watch our demonstration on
video
� Step 1 : Login
Enter your email and password or create your account.
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9. How to use it
� Step 2 : Project creation
After login, you can see the list of all your projects.
You can create a new project.
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10. How to use it
� Step 3 : Item creation
For each project you can create items which are your project features. Selecting
a project shows you its item list. You can modify, delete items, and also create.
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11. How to use it
� Step 4 : Assign users
For each project you can assign users with different profiles. Only Scrum master
and Admin can manage the project (item, vote, users…).
When you add a new user, this one immediately receives an email containing a
temporary password and the mean to obtain Pocket Agile.
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12. How to use it
� Step 5 : Start Planning Poker
� When everybody is ready, planning poker can start.
� Everybody connects and meets in a virtual Planning Poker room, The Scrum master
can click “Start” button and then choose the first feature for which users have to vote.
� A new page opens named with the item selected. Everybody can select his value
(click on “Select my value”)
� All users can see the advancement of the vote. Each user vote are identified by a
green icon.
Emilie Brochette
Emilie Brochette Emilie Brochette
Patrice Campagne
Patrice Campagne Patrice Campagne
Thierry Blancher
Thierry Blancher Thierry Blancher
Emy Melun
Emy Melun Emy Melun
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13. How to use it
� Step 6 : Decide the outcome
� When everybody has voted, The Scrum master can look at the results by clicking on
the eye icon. Then appear the vote of each participant.
� Now the Scrum master can decide of the unique value to assign to this feature
according to the votes. He has to click on the check icon and then choose a value.
� The chosen value appears on each users screen.
� Then on the item list all features that have been voted have one value assigned.
Emilie Brochette
Patrice Campagne
Thierry Blancher
Emy Melun
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14. How to use it
� In short :
� One technology for one application, which works on every terminal. It is no longer
needed to recreate the same application with different mobile languages/framework.
� You can access this application from any terminal, and from anywhere (if you have a
3G or Wifi connexion).
� It allows collaborative work, facilitating planning poker between users separated by
distance. Scrum master
Casablanca Paris
Paris
Tunis
Nanterre
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15. How it works
� Works on :
Desktop PC,
Mac, Mac Book, Iphone, Blackberry phone,
Mobile Android Laptop PC,
Ipad Blackberry Playbook
Windows phone
…As well as all other Smartphones and Tablets
� With :
The innovative concept of cloud allows you to benefit from many online
services without being hindered by the complex management of its
infrastructure.
Access your services from anywhere with this major innovation.
Synchronization of ADOBE FLEX
exchanges between users
Rest persistence ADOBE AIR
services data
Json data exchange
ADOBE LCCS
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16. Bug report
Some bugs where reported, we are currently correcting them.
Due to the short time frame for the challenge, the new version had not
been yet republished on all the app stores.
In order to avoid surprises, we mention them here.
� Sometimes the application does not respond, it "works" (display the charging icon) but it is blocked.
Then it is necessary to restart.
� Right in the planning poker, the “Return back” button shows the “Disconnect” icon but the link remains
functional.
� Sometimes during the planning poker, when you click the “Return back” button, there is the transition
except that you're on the same page. You have to click on it 3 times to get back to the page you asked
for.
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17. Upcoming features
� New features are coming to upgrade Pocket Agile :
� New graphics
� Automatic calculation of the average value corresponding to the votes for a
feature
� Creation of user story
� Category added to the features and user stories
� Management of conversion ratio.
Ex : 1 point = n men/days
� Multi-language
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18. Upcoming features
� Discover our next design :
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