
Master real-life pi planning through a step-by-step guide from preparation to the pi planning day, using SAFe terms like program increment and agile release train.
Clarify prerequisites for effective Pi planning, define Pi, agile team, and agile release train, outline trainings, features, stories, Jira whiteboard, and stakeholder engagement.
Learn essential trainings for agile roles in Scaled Agile Framework, from scrum masters and teams to product owners, architects, and business agility leaders, with recommended Scrum Guide.
A story is a small piece of functionality deliverable within a week that fits in a sprint and is managed in the product backlog, moving through todo and in-progress stages.
Clarify prerequisites for effective Pi planning, define Pi, explain agile teams and art and their sizes, outline trainings for participants, and identify and engage stakeholders through features and stories.
Learn to calculate team capacity in agile projects by counting working days, adjusting for leaves and holidays, allocating 70–80% for delivery and 20–30% for admin, and excluding IP iteration.
Explore Jira readiness for pi planning by configuring art, establishing aligned art and team backlogs with features and stories, and prioritizing with product managers and product owners aligned with stakeholders.
This lecture covers the final pi planning retrospective, using start-stop-continue with color coded sticky notes and three votes per participant to build a next-step action plan.
Learn how to run a Pi planning day and tailor it to your needs, organization dynamics, and the product or services you deliver. Gain in-depth knowledge of breakout guidance, dependency planning, risk roaming, exercises, confidence voting, executive support, objective building, and engaging retrospectives that contribute to your organization's strategic objectives.
The release train engineer leads and facilitates the pr planning as a servant leader, coordinating venue, content, tool readiness, and coaching product managers, owners, and scrum masters to align stories.
Define and align agile team objectives within art, estimate and plan features and stories, manage capacity and dependencies, raise risks and training needs, and participate in pi planning confidence voting.
There are numerous training courses about what is PI planning. All the courses are theoretical. This is the first course on how to do a PI planning in real life. This course brings the PI planning into practise. It will give you all the tools and techniques how to run a PI planning in real life. In this course I will start with what are the pre-requisites for it? What are the different trainings that various participants should attend? What is the preparation required to make PI planning a success? Then I will walk you through the PI planning day itself. I have shared ART calendar, Team Calendar, PI Calendar and PI boards from my experience which works with minor tweaking based on need. Finally this course will give you all the knowledge and tools to run an effective PI planning retrospective.
This is a unique course. It is the first course that will walk through the details of the day to day activities of PI planning, one can call it a "PI planning cook book" or "PI planning guide", "PI planning template" or even "Step by step guide to PI planning. One can download all the resources and reuse them to plan and run their PI planning. The resources can help them how to prepare for PI planning, how to create PI planning board, do the capacity planning etc. You can download the PI planning calendar to create a PI cadence for the year. You also have ART event calendar, which is a simple spreadsheet that will help you with the dates of all the iterations in a PI, formulas of this spreadsheet are simple, can be changed easily by you to adjust it based on your organisation need.