PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) — Question 259

A project's product owner asks the scrum master to facilitate the estimation activity. The scrum master then meets with the team and the product owner to clarify the user stories. Following the meeting, the team assembles and provides individual user-story estimates.

What technique did the team use?

Answer options

• A. Lessons learned
• B. Wideband Delphi
• C. Formal point counting
• D. Planning poker

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, Planning poker, as this technique involves team members providing estimates for user stories using cards, which encourages discussion and consensus. The other options, such as Lessons learned and Formal point counting, do not describe a collaborative estimation technique, while Wideband Delphi is more structured and may not involve the same level of interaction as Planning poker.