PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) — Question 225

An agile team wants to collectively determine a project's size. What will the team be doing if they use the planning poker technique to accomplish this?

Answer options

• A. Estimating story points by comparing them to similar, past features
• B. Estimating stories by placing them in buckets
• C. Using the number of dots for votes to estimate story points
• D. Estimating the relative size of stories by using story points

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because planning poker is specifically designed to estimate the relative size of user stories using story points. Option A focuses on comparison to past features, which is not the essence of planning poker. Option B describes a different estimation method, and Option C refers to a voting process rather than the specific use of story points in planning poker.