Question

An agile team used planning poker to estimate user stories. After all team members read a user story, the facilitator asks everyone to choose a card with estimated number of ideal days to complete a user story and then reveal the card. If estimates were widely different, the facilitator would immediately ask for re-estimates until all the estimates converge. What did the facilitator do wrong?
A. Participants used ideal days as the unit for the estimates.
B. Participants re-estimated immediately after everyone revealed their cards.
C. Cards were revealed when the process should have been anonymous.
D. The facilitator did nothing wrong and played by the rules.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is "Option B"

Explanation:

In the given-choices, the only option B is correct because by reassessing instantly, the team loses is its advantage of debating its projections and how it chose those assessments, and the wrong choice can be defined as follows:

• In choice A, Mostly as a unit for the projections, respondents should not use the ideal days.  

• In choice C, Whenever the procedure should've been anonymous, no cards were released.

• In choice D, Its mediator was incorrect and the laws were followed.