Open Planning Poker

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Open Planning Poker is a free and open-source agile estimation tool for Scrum teams. Create game rooms, invite your team, estimate user stories collaboratively, and export results — all in real-time.

Features

• Create & Join Poker Rooms — Start a game and share the link with your team
• Classic Planning Poker Voting — Estimate user stories using Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, or custom decks
• Hidden Votes — Votes are concealed until the team is ready to reveal them
• Real-Time Updates — GraphQL WebSocket subscriptions for instant vote and player updates
• Run the Room Together — Co-hosts, handing the host role over, observers who watch without voting, and removing a player
• Auto-Reveal and Final Estimate — Cards turn over when everyone has voted; the host records the agreed card
• Ticket List — Edit, delete and drag tickets into order; descriptions support a small Markdown subset
• Async Voting — Everyone votes on the tickets before the meeting; votes stay hidden until the reveal
• Team Rooms — Keep every sprint planning of a team, with the sprint history and a velocity chart
• Export Results — Download game reports as PDF or CSV
• No Registration Required — Anonymous usernames, no passwords, no personal data
• English, Serbian and German — The app follows the browser language and can be switched in the menu; the website, its guides and the changelog are translated too
• Installable App — Install on mobile and desktop; opens offline with a friendly notice
• SEO Optimized — Server-side rendering, structured data, meta tags for search engines
• Docker Ready — Run locally or deploy to production with Docker Compose
• Rate Limiting & Security Headers — Protected by design
• Monitoring — OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana dashboards

Documentation

Document	Description
Architecture	System design, service matrix, data flow, Clean Architecture layers
Setup & Development	Prerequisites, local setup, project structure, env vars, tests
Deployment	Production deployment, CI/CD, nginx, SSL, firewall, rollback
SEO & Analytics	SEO features, structured data, sitemap, GA4, Clarity
Contributing	How to contribute, coding standards, PR checklist
Security	Vulnerability reporting, security features, known limitations
Changelog	Release history and changes
Code of Conduct	Community standards

Architecture

Open Planning Poker follows a microservices architecture with GraphQL Federation:

Browser → Nginx (SSL) → Fusion Gateway → GraphQL Subgraphs
                                                                    ├── Game Engine (PostgreSQL)
                                                                    └── User Management (Redis)

See the Architecture documentation for the full system design, service responsibility matrix, and data flow diagrams.

Quick Start

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/bokunda/open-planning-poker.git
cd open-planning-poker

# Start infrastructure (PostgreSQL + Redis)
docker compose up -d opp-db OpenPlanningPoker.Cache

# Start backend services
cd backend/open-planning-poker-game-engine/src/OpenPlanningPoker.GameEngine.GraphQL && dotnet run  # Terminal 1 — Game Engine :9091
cd backend/open-planning-poker-user-management/src/OpenPlanningPoker.UserManagement.GraphQL && dotnet run  # Terminal 2 — User Mgmt :9090
cd backend/open-planning-poker-graphql-gateway && dotnet run      # Terminal 3 — Fusion Gateway :10010

# Start frontend
cd frontend/open-planning-poker-web-app && npm install && npm start   # Angular dev server :4200

Full setup guide: docs/setup-and-development.md

Screenshots

Game room

Dark mode

Technology Stack

Layer	Technology
Frontend	Angular 21, TypeScript, Angular Material, Apollo Client, SCSS
Backend	.NET 10, HotChocolate GraphQL, MediatR, Entity Framework Core
Gateway	HotChocolate Fusion
Database	PostgreSQL 15.5
Cache	Redis 7
Monitoring	OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana
Infrastructure	Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Let's Encrypt
Shared	OpenPlanningPoker.Shared NuGet package

Roadmap

• Import tickets from CSV / JSON
• Multiple deck types (Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, custom)
• Shared voting timer, auto-reveal
• Dark mode theme
• Co-hosts, host hand-over, observers, final estimate, CSV export
• Team rooms with sprint history and velocity, async voting
• Jira integration (import issues, save estimates back)
• Slack and Microsoft Teams apps
• English, Serbian and German, installable app (PWA)
• Integration, end-to-end and Lighthouse checks on every pull request

Support the project

Open Planning Poker is free, with no ads and no paid plan. If it saves your team time, you can help pay for the servers and new features:

• Sponsor on GitHub (no fee)
• Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi (one-off, no account needed)

Stars, bug reports and pull requests help just as much.

About the creator

Open Planning Poker is built by Bojan Piskulic, founder of Bitcrafta, a software agency that designs and builds web applications for its clients. Bojan created Open Planning Poker as the estimation tool he wanted for his own teams: free, without sign-up or ads, and open source, so anyone can read the code or run it on their own server.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

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Built with by Bojan Piskulic