The notion of coaching is specific to Agile approaches in the software development world. There has always been consultants, but they were seen as a different role. Here are some resources about Agile coaching, starting with some quotes from the Agile Coaching book written by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley.
The first thing to say is that the term “Planning Poker®” is a registered trademark of Mountain Goat Software, the Mike Cohn company. This is why this agile planning practice could be sometimes names differently: scrum poker, agile poker, etc. This article presents a list of free and open source planning poker tools and plugins that are also directly available as online tools.
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