Planning Poker with Jira, Without Installing Anything

Point Poker has no Jira plugin. You do not need one: paste your issues into a room, estimate them together, export the agreed points as CSV, and bulk-update Jira from the file. No Marketplace install, no admin approval queue, and everyone who is not facilitating just opens a link.

Most planning poker tools that advertise a Jira integration need somebody with Jira admin rights to install an app, approve its permission scopes, and frequently move the team onto a paid plan first. In a lot of organisations that is a two-week ticket for a ceremony that is happening on Thursday. The workflow below runs this afternoon, and works the same whether your tracker is Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps, Trello, GitHub Projects or a spreadsheet.

What you give up is automatic write-back. With an installed plugin the estimate lands on the issue the moment you record it; here you record estimates in the room and push them to the tracker in one bulk edit at the end. For an hour of refinement that is a single extra step. If your team genuinely needs per-issue write-back as it happens, an installed plugin is the better fit, and it is worth saying so plainly rather than pretending otherwise.

Why bulk paste is the part that matters

The queue accepts one item per line, so a backlog copied straight out of a Jira filter, a Linear view or a spreadsheet lands in the room in a single paste. That is the step that usually justifies an integration, and it takes about five seconds without one.

Keep the issue key at the start of each line. It survives into the CSV export, which is what makes the bulk edit at the other end a paste rather than a retyping exercise.

The same flow for other trackers

Running it inside Slack, Teams, Zoom or Meet

There is no Slack app or Teams app either, and for the same reason: the room is a URL. Paste it into the channel or the meeting chat and everyone joins from the browser already open in front of them, on a laptop or a phone. Nobody installs anything and nobody signs in.

On a video call, the facilitator usually shares their screen so the table and the reveal are visible to the room, while each person votes on their own device. That works identically in Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex because none of them are involved.

How to run planning poker with Jira, step by step

  1. In Jira, select the issues you are refining and copy the keys and summaries
  2. Open a Point Poker room and paste the whole list into the queue, one item per line
  3. Work the queue: everyone votes, the cards reveal together, the facilitator records the agreed number
  4. Download the session CSV, which pairs each item with its final estimate
  5. Back in Jira, bulk-edit the same issues and set Story Points from the CSV column

Frequently asked questions

Does Point Poker have a Jira integration?

No. There is no Marketplace plugin, no OAuth connection and no write-back to issues. The supported path is bulk paste in and CSV export out, which needs no admin permissions and works with every tracker rather than one. If per-issue write-back matters more to your team than avoiding the install, a plugin-based tool is the honest recommendation.

How do I use planning poker with Jira for free?

Copy the issue keys and summaries from your Jira filter, paste them into a Point Poker room queue one per line, estimate as a team, then export the CSV and bulk-edit Story Points in Jira from it. Every part of that is free here, with no participant cap below 20 and no limit on how many issues you size in a session.

How do I get the estimates back into Jira?

Download the session CSV from the facilitator panel. It pairs every item with its agreed estimate, so if you kept the Jira key at the start of each line you can bulk-edit the same set of issues and fill Story Points straight from the export. The clipboard summary works too if you would rather paste into a ticket comment.

Does this work with Azure DevOps, Linear or Trello?

Yes, and in exactly the same way, because nothing in the flow is Jira-specific. Anything you can copy a list out of can be pasted into the queue, and the CSV export imports anywhere that accepts a CSV — Azure DevOps work item import, Linear, Trello, GitHub Projects, or a spreadsheet.

Can I run planning poker inside Microsoft Teams or Slack?

You can run it from Teams or Slack without an app: paste the room link into the channel or meeting chat and everyone joins in their browser. There is no Teams app and no Slack bot to install, so there is nothing for an IT administrator to approve before Thursday's refinement session.

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