What is PI Planning?
This document provides an overview of the PI Planning concept and how it relates to our Kanban tool (a method or approach for managing demands, tasks, or projects), Agility.
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1. What is PI Planning?
PI Planning is an agile practice adopted to plan and align the work of multiple teams on a project. It plays a key role in service management, enabling effective collaboration across teams, providing visibility into progress, and improving coordination of activities.
2. Benefits of PI Planning
Better alignment between teams: PI Planning facilitates communication and collaboration between teams, ensuring everyone is aware of goals, deadlines and priorities.
Visibility and transparency: When performing PI Planning, it is possible to have a clear view of the progress of activities and dependencies between teams, allowing for more informed decision-making.
Early identification of issues: During PI Planning, teams can identify potential obstacles, risks or issues that could affect project success, allowing for early corrective actions.
Efficient Resource Allocation: Helps ensure that resources are properly and optimally allocated to meet project requirements.
More consistent deliveries: By planning collaboratively, teams have a shared understanding of goals and priorities, which leads to more consistent, higher quality deliveries. add workflow item
3. How the Agility Tool supports PI Planning
The Agility Tool is a powerful Kanban management system that offers specific features to facilitate PI Planning. These features include:
Customizable Kanban boards: Agility lets you create custom Kanban boards for each team, making it easy to view and manage planned activities during PI Planning.
Team integration: The tool allows the integration of several teams in a single environment, allowing effective coordination and collaboration during PI Planning.
Dependency tracking: With Agility, you can map and track dependencies between team activities, providing a clear view of interrelationships and facilitating risk management.
Metrics and KPIs tracking: The Agility tool offers the ability to monitor metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) related to PI Planning. This allows you to assess progress, identify potential bottlenecks and take steps to improve the efficiency and quality of deliveries. add workflow item
4. PI Planning steps
While PI Planning steps can vary depending on your organization's specific needs and approach, here are some common steps to consider:
Definition of goals and objectives: Teams must align themselves with project objectives, establishing clear and shared goals for the PI Planning period.
Identifying Stories and Activities: Teams work together to identify user stories and activities needed to achieve established goals. This involves breaking work down into smaller tasks and assigning responsibilities.
Effort Estimates: Each team estimates the effort required to complete planned stories and activities. These estimates can be made using techniques such as Planning Poker or other collaborative approaches.
Identifying dependencies: During PI Planning, it is important to identify dependencies between stories, activities and teams in order to effectively manage risks and plan for necessary interactions.
Sequencing and Prioritization: Based on effort estimates and identified dependencies, teams collaborate to sequence and prioritize stories and activities. This helps ensure that work runs logically and efficiently.
Capacity and resource planning: During PI Planning, teams assess available resource capacity and perform proper planning to allocate resources efficiently, taking into account the constraints and needs of each team.
Defining objectives for the PI period: Based on the planned work, teams establish measurable and achievable objectives for the PI Planning period. These objectives serve as a benchmark against which to measure progress and success at the end of the period
Commitment and agreement: Teams review and discuss the overall plan resulting from PI Planning. All team members have the opportunity to share concerns, adjust estimates, and ensure common understanding before finalizing and agreeing on the plan. add workflow item
Conclusion
PI Planning plays a crucial role, enabling efficient collaboration between teams, visibility into progress, early identification of issues, and efficient allocation of resources.
The Agility tool supports PI Planning by providing specific features such as customizable Kanban boards, team onboarding, dependency tracking and metrics tracking.
This documentation will provide a clear and objective understanding of the concept of PI Planning, along with the main related points and the support provided by the Agility tool. If you need more information or clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Glossary
SAFe
SAFe, or Scaled Agile Framework, is a scalable agile management framework or model designed to help organizations implement agile practices on a large scale. It provides guidance and framework for companies looking to adopt agile methods in a broader enterprise environment, involving multiple teams, programs and portfolios.
PI Planning
Program Increment Planning or Program Increment Planning
Program
In the context of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), a program is an organizational unit comprising multiple agile teams working together to develop and deliver a software solution or product. A program is made up of a collection of agile teams collaborating to achieve a common goal.