3: Leading PI Planning

Question 1

On day 1 of PI Planning, the PO and PM present how the Vision aligns to Strategic Themes to who?

Answer 1

the ART

Question 2

The PI Roadmap is described in order to support what 2 key things?

Answer 2

Epics & Milestones

Question 3

How many Features should be communicated to the ART on day 1 of PI Planning?

Answer 3

Plus or minus 10 Features

Question 4

Team breakouts are a time for Agile Teams to work on planning how they will deliver Features during PI Planning. POs and PMs do what each during this?

Answer 4

POs lead the activity, PMs support teams by providing added insights & guidance

Question 5

At the end of day 1, which role facilitates management review and the problem-solving meeting?

Answer 5

the RTE

Question 6

At the start of day 2, planning adjustments are presented by which role, which negotiated scope changes & resolved other issues?

Answer 6

Management

Question 7

_________ are a summary of the business and technical goals that each team and the overall ART intend to achieve in the upcoming PO.

Answer 7

PI Objectives

Question 8

PI Objectives should reflect what is important to which 2 groups?

Answer 8

The Business & Stakeholders

Question 9

Immediate feedback, decentralized decisions, predictability without specificity, and commitment are examples of why we use what during PI Planning?

Answer 9

PI Objectives

Question 10

True or False. Features can only be delivered by individual teams.

Answer 10

False, some require collaboration

Question 11

List the 3 tips for writing effective team PI Objectives. Here are tips for how each start:
1) Remove…
2) Describe…
3) Don’t use….

Answer 11

1) Remove jargon so that PI Objectives are understandable to Business Owners & Customers
2) Describe the value & impact
3) Don’t use Features or Stories as PI Objectives, as these can change

Question 12

Uncommitted objectives help improve the predictability of delivering what?

Answer 12

Business Value.

Question 13

If an objective has many unknowns, consider moving it to ‘uncommitted’ and put in early what?

Answer 13

Spikes

Question 14

When assigning business value, consider what kinds of value? (remember acronym)

Answer 14

RCMEF:
Regulatory
Commercial
Market
Efficiency
Future

Question 15

What are the 4 strategies for managing Dependencies? (remember acronym)

Answer 15

BIUC:
Bottlenecks: distribute work to other teams,

Iteration dependencies: adjust work sequencing to eliminate same Iteration dependencies,

Unbalanced teams: adjust work b/w teams based on forecasted capacity,

Complex critical path: adjust work b/w teams or split Features & Stories

Question 16

Who are the 3 groups that can be affected by risks to successful ART execution?

Answer 16

1) A single team, 2) multiple teams, 3) or other aspects of the business

Question 17

What are the ART PI ROAMing risks?

Answer 17

Resolved
Owned
Accepted
Mitigated