Preparing for PI Planning (30%) Flashcards
Who takes the lead in preparing for PI Planning
Product Managers
What does PI in PI Planning stand for?
Program Increment
What is PI Planning?
A cadence-based event to align the agile teams of an ART to a shared mission and vision
What’s the basic agenda of PI Planning event?
- Business context
- Vision – Architecture, UX, and Product
- Team break-outs
- Risk review
- Retrospective
What are the inputs to the PI Planning event?
- Business Context
- Roadmap and Vision
- Top 10 Features from the Program Backlog
Who facilitates the PI Planning event?
RTE
How long is a PI?
Usually 8 to 12 weeks
For a 12 week PI, how many iterations will usually be done?
5 : 2-week development iterations
1 : Innovation and Planning iteration
What are the 6 business benefits of PI Planning?
- Face-to-face communication across teams and stakeholders
- Aligning development to business goals
- Identifying team dependencies
- Provide just-enough architecture and UX guidance
- Matching demand to capacity & eliminating excess WIP
- Fast decision-making
What are the two primary outputs of PI Planning?
- Committed PI Objectives
- Program Board
Who are the 5 attendees of the PI event?
- Business owners
- Product Management
- Agile teams
- Architects
- System team
Why are business owners included in PI Planning?
Business owners provide:
- The Business Context
- Are an important Guardrail on budgetary spend
What do the architects provide for PI Planning?
Whether Enterprise, System, or Solution architects, they provide
- Architecture Vision briefing
- New Enablers for the Program backlog
- Non-functional requirements (NFR)
What do the uncommitted PI Objectives help to do?
Uncommitted PI Objectives help improve the predicitability of delivering business value
Do uncommitted PI Objectives count towards calculating load?
YES, they count towards load
What do the uncommitted PI Objectives represent?
These used to be called “stretch” ojectives like in OKRs but are not “just in case you have time”
How are PI Objectives different than Features?
The PI Objectives are business and technical goals the team intends to achieve during the PI. The focus should be on understanding the intent of the business owners on the features being delivered stated as outcomes not output (features).
How do business owners assign business value (BV) to PI Objectives
Subjective rating from 1 to 10 for each objective
What does the SMART goals anonym stand for?
S - Specific M - Measurable A - Achievable R - Realistic T - Time-bound
What is the hierarchy to roll-up PI Objectives?
- Solution
- Program
- Team
When you don’t have a historic velocity as guide , what is commonly used heuristic for initial capacity planning?
8 points per developer + tester
What’s the standard color scheme for features (post-its) during PI Planning?
Green - story Violet - Maintenance (defect) Yellow - exploratory enabler Orange - infrastructure enabler Red - Risks and Dependecies
Who creates the vision for an ART?
Product Management
What is the source for creating the ART vision?
Customer feedback and learnings from the ART teams
What guides an ART and provides the feedback loop?
Vision guides the ART –> forward
Release feedback evolves the vision <– feeback loop
What is a Solution/Product vision?
A description of the future state of the product or solution
- What problem does it solve?
- For whom does it provide benefit?
- What NFR does it deliver?
What the time horizons differences for Solution vs PI Roadmaps?
Solution Roadmaps are multi-year, 1 to 3 years
while
Program Roadmaps are 1 to 3 PIs (1 to 3 quarters)
Solution Roadmaps contain what two types of items?
Capabilities and Enablers
Portfolio roadmaps contain what two types of items?
Epics and Enablers
What influences Solution and Program roadmaps?
Market dynamics