PI Planning Flashcards
What are the 6 areas of PI Planning?
1) Planning Locations
2) PI Planning Agenda
3) Facilities
4) Working Agreements
5) Tooling
6) Facilitation
Who facilitates the PI Planning session?
The Release Train Engineer
What are the business benefits of PI Planning?
1) Establishing personal communication among all team members and stakeholders
2) Aligning development to business goals with the business context, vision, and Team/ART PI objectives
3) Identifying dependencies and fostering cross-team and cross-ART collaboration
4) Providing the opportunity for just the right amount of architecture and Lean User Experience guidance
5) Matching demand to capacity and eliminating excess Work in Progress
6) Fast decision-making
What are the inputs of PI Planning?
1) Business context
2) Roadmap and vision
3) Highest priority features of the ART Backlog
What are the outputs of PI Planning?
1) Committed Team/ART PI objectives
2) ART Planning board
Who are the stakeholders that typically attend PI Planning?
Business Owners, Product Management, Agile Teams, System and Solution Architects
How often does PI Planning occur?
Two days every 10 weeks (could be 8-12).
Who owns feature priorities?
Product Management
Who owns story planning and high-level estimates?
Development teams
Who works as intermediaries for governance, interfaces, and dependencies?
System architects and User Experience
What are PI Objectives?
Business summaries of what each team intends to deliver in the upcoming PI
PI Objectives can be other things like…
The aggregation of a set of features, a milestone in the real world, an enabler feature supporting the implementation
What is an uncommitted PI Objective?
It’s an objective that the Team does not feel comfortable achieving in the PI.
Do uncommitted objectives count when calculating load?
No
What is a coach sync?
This is when the RTE brings the teams’ ScrumMaster/coaches together to answer the coach sync questions.
