2: Preparing for PI Planning Flashcards
PI Planning, Solution Vision, Solution & PI Roadmaps, Customer-centric Features, ART Backlog & Kanban
A Planning Interval is a timebox during which a ____ delivers incremental value in the form of working, tested _____ and ______.
Agile Release Train (ART), software, systems
A Planning Interval is typically ____ weeks that consists of development of what 2 things?
8-12 weeks, Iterations and an Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration
A Planning Interval is a timebox for planning, building and validating what 3 things?
A full system increment,
demonstration value, and
receiving fast feedback
What is a cadence-based event that aligns all teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision?
PI Planning
How is PI Planning structured in days?
2 in-person days
3-4 virtual days
For PI Planning, what does Product Management own?
Feature priorities
For PI Planning, what do Agile Teams own?
Story planning and high-level estimates
For PI Planning, what do the Architect and UX do?
Work as intermediaries for governance,
interfaces, and
dependencies
PI planning aligns development to what?
Business Goals w/ the business context, Vision, and Team/ART PI Objectives
PI Planning identifies and fosters what?
Dependencies &
Cross-team & cross-ART collaboration
PI Planning establishes what?
Personal communication across all team members & stakeholders
PI Planning provides what?
Opportunity for just the right amount of architecture and Lean User Experience (UX) guidance
PI Planning matches, eliminates, and enables what?
Matches demand to capacity,
eliminates excess work in process (WIP), and
enabled fast decision-making
What is a Solution Vision?
A description of the future state of the product or Solution
If Customer Feedback evolves the Vision for ART, what role creates the Vision?
Product Management
A ______ is a container for significant Solution development initiative that captures the more substantial investments that occur within a portfolio.
Epic
A ______ is a service that fulfills a stakeholder need. Each of them includes a name, a benefit hypothesis, and acceptance criteria.
Feature
A ______ is sized or split, as necessary, to be delivered by an ART in a PI.
Feature
A ____ is a short description of a small piece of desired functionality.
Story
A _____ supports the activities needed to extend the Architectural Runway to provide future business functionality. They are captured in various backlogs throughout SAFe.
Enabler
Customer Journey Maps, Personas, and Whole-Product Thinking are Design Thinking tools that support creation of what?
Features
This tool for Feature designing captures rich, concise information that inspires great products without unnecessary details.
Personas
This tool for Feature designing that takes a product from generic to expected, augmented, then to a potential product creates what for the customer?
A compelling reason to buy the product.
Features may start as a 1 sentence overview with more details added during which 2 phases?
1) Refinement meetings and 2) during PI Planning preparation
Which role estimates Stories?
Agile Teams
Which role estimates Features? What do those get rolled up into and where are they stored?
Product Managers,
Epic estimates,
Portfolio Backlog
Which role estimates how long a portfolio Epic might take? What’s used to estimate this?
Portfolio Managers,
ART capacity allocation
Where do Features get stored to deliver business benefits for a single ART?
ART Backlog
Which role identifies Enablers that will enable delivery of future business functionality (Features) and a needed Architectural Runway?
System Architects
What is the Content Authority role that prioritizes ART Backlog items?
Product Management
