Spectator Overview

Spectators can observe the entire session without participating in votes.

What Spectators See

As a spectator, you have a read-only view of the session:

Spectator's read-only view of the session with voting progress

Player Arena — all connected players with their avatars, names, and group badges
Current ticket — the ticket being discussed/estimated, including title, description, and URL
Vote progress — how many voters have submitted estimates (but not the values, before reveal)
Revealed votes — all votes shown after the moderator reveals
Vote statistics — full summary including average, median, mode, outliers
Quest Progress — how many tickets have been estimated

The spectator role is designed for:

Stakeholders — product owners or managers who want to follow estimation discussions
Team leads — keeping an eye on multiple sessions
New team members — learning the estimation process by observing before participating
Distributed teams — remote team members who want context but aren’t needed for estimates

When joining the session, select Spectator in the role selection. You won’t be asked to choose a group since spectators don’t vote.

Your spectator role is saved locally, so it will be pre-selected next time you join a session.

On first join, the spectator tour walks you through the interface elements relevant to your role:

You can replay the tour anytime using the Help button.

For a comparison of all roles and their capabilities, see Understanding Roles.