3. Leading PI Planning

When does the RTE facilitate the draft plan review?

At the end of PI Planning day one the RTE facilitate the management review and problem solving meeting.

What is an uncommitted objective?

An uncommitted objective are used by team to identify planned work that they have low confidence of completing.

What does the R stand for in Writing Smart PI objective?

R=Realistic recognize factors that can't be controlled.

What are regulatory values,

Regulatory values are legal or infrastructure functionalities which if not deployed can result in fines revenue losses or damages to the enterprise brand.

Tips for writing effective team PI objective?

Remove jargons to understand business owner and customer.

What are included in the 1st day PI Planning agenda?

1. Business context. 2. products solution/ vision. 3. architecture vision and development practices. 4. Planning context and lunch. 5. Team breakouts. 6. Daft plan review. 7. management review and problem solving.

When is actual business value assessed?

Actual business value is assessed during inspect and adapt.

Why is communicating the vision important?

1. Communicate in the vision is important because it shows the art how the vision aligns with strategic Themes. 2. Helps prepare materials so that each team can see the vision. 3. provide user persona to illustrate how the program vision improved the lives of our customers. 4. explaine the purpose of any non functional requirements. 5. map vision to strategic themes and solution contacts.

What are some things that the PO and PM and do during PI Planning day one?

1. Communicate program vision. 2. present the top 10 features. 3. support team breakouts. 4. collaborate to decompose features into stories. 5. negotiate scope 6. review draft PI plans and provide feedback. 7. participate in management review of the draft plan.

What are some potential strategy for managing dependencies?

1. Distribute work to other teams. 2. Adjust the work sequencing to eliminate same iteration dependency. 3. adjust work between teams based on forecasted capacity. 4. adjust work between teams or split features and stories.

How can PI Planning create options for releasing sooner?

1. During PI Planning a team may suggest a sequence that create options for release in value sooner. 2. the PM can accept this sequence or ask the team to retain the original sequence based on other factors. like A major customer contract may be waiting on an early validation from the 1st story.

What occurs when your building the final plan?

1. Final plans are collected at the front of the Room and reviewed by all teams. 2. business owners or acts if they accept each team's plan. 3. if accepted the team's plan R and program risk sheet are brought board to the front of the Room and included in the final plan. 4. if not accepted the team removes their plan and continues planning after the review.

Why do we use PI objective?

1. It allows teams to get immediate feedback. 2. Decentralized decision. 3. predictability without specifics. 4. commitment

Why should you distinguish features from PI objective?

1. PI objectives often relate directly to a feature. 2. some features can be delivered by individual team other features require collaboration. 3. in addition to features and input to features other team objective will appear as well.

What is included in day 2 agenda of the PI Planning event?

1. Planning adjustment. 2. team breakout. 3. final plan review and lunch. 4. program risk. 5. confident vote 6. Plan rework. 7. planning retrospective and moving forward.

What are some things that need to be considered when assigning the business value?

1. Regulatory value 2. commercial values. 3. market values 4. Efficiency values 5. future values.

What are somethings that occur during PI plan in day two?

1. Support the team break outs. 2. Accept the team PI objective. 3. establish business value with business owners. 4. Participate in final plan review. 5. provide feedback on program risk. 6. participate in confident vote rework if applicable and contributes to PI retrospective.

What are the benefits communicated in the PI Roadmap?

1. The PI roadmap illustrate how the work in this PI help fulfill the vision. 2. communicates the PI Roadmap as part of your vision to assist in PI Planning activities. 3. highlight program epics and milestones.

Why do PM and PO supports the team breakouts sessions?

1. The Pm's and the PO support team break out session when agile teams do the work of planning how they will deliver features in upcoming iterations. 2. the product owner lead this activity with the respective team. 3. the product managers supports team and provide additional insight and guidance.

Why does the PM communicate the top 10 features to the art?

1. The features should not be a surprise as Team and should have seen the features evolve over time. 2. Be prepared to explain why these features were chosen (a safe core value is transparency). 3. socialize in the features before PI Planning helps product manager develop right size features. 4. top 10 is a guideline some ART may pull more than 10 features sometimes less.

What should the team focus on during PI Planning?

1. The team should focus on Outcomes during PI Planning. 2. Ask the question, is our goal to complete and the listed feature? 3. or is our goal to provide the outcome desired by those features.

What are some challenges of managing dependencies?

1. sometimes it is the art bottleneck. 2. Iteration dependency. 3. Unbalanced team 4. complex or critical paths.

What is a committed objective?

A committed objective relate to what the team commits to deliver based on the PI session.

What does the A stand for when writing Smart PI objective?

A= Achievable within an eighteens control.

What does the A stand for in the ROAM risk management?

A=Accepted nothing more can be done if the risk occur release may be compromised.

What should A PI objective reflect?

API objective should reflect what is important to the business as well as other stakeholders.

What happen when people vote a 1 or 2 during the PI confident vote?

Plans are reworked when the average confident boat is to or lower.

What are commercial values?

Commercial values or products services functionality that brings new or maintains existing revenues.

Why is commitment important to the PI objective?

Commitment made by the team and not business leaders, helped with the PI objective.

What helps with predictability without Specificity?

Committing to PI objective instead of a specific feature or story and enhance agility as it allows the team and the PO to modify the planned work based on discovery and customer input and still achieve the business value.

Why is the decentralized decision needed to gain PI objective?

Decentralized decisions help the business value of the team while making decisions should the team need to adjust planned work.

How are risk managed?

During PI Planning the art will seek opportunity to localize and address risk.

What are efficiency values?

Efficiency values are functionalities that reduce operating costs including technical debt or improvement in the pipeline.

What are some essential output from PI Planning?

Essential outputs from PI Planning event are, Team and PI objective and program board.

What our future values?

Future values are functionalities that focus on enabling or realizing future values, including enablers proof of concepts, research spikes

Why is immediate feedback useful to understand PI objective?

Get in immediate feedback helps the team with PI objective and provides confirmation to the business leader that the team understand and desired outcomes.

Why do we use program board to visualize work?

It is helpful to understand what milestones event are up coming and how different teams in the arts are planning to deliver different features.

What does the M stand for in risk management methodology?

M=Mitigated the team has plans to adjust as necessary.

What does the M stands for when writing Smart PI objective?

M=stand for measurable it is descriptive with Yes/no quantitative in a range.

When does the management negotiate scope during the PI Planning review?

Management negotiate changes and resolve other issues by making planning adjustments which are presented at the start of day 2.

What are market values?

Market values or functionalities that differentiate the products/services from competing products/ services and new functionalities needed to stay competitive.

What does the O stand for in a risk ROAM methodology

O= owned someone has taken responsibility for that risk.

How do we address risk during the PI Planning session?

PI Planning risks are managed and discussed and categorize using the ROAM method.

When are PI objective built?

PI objective are built largely bottom up as the team estimate and identified them during PI Planning

What is are PI objective?

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

When are addressed in PI planning?

Risks are managed urine PI plan in day 2.

What does the S stand for when writing Smart PI objective?

S= specific and intended outcomes and starts with an action verb.

What does the T stand for in writing smart objective?

T=Time bound can be accomplished within the PI.

Why is the PI objective and business value helpful to the team?

The PI objective and business value helps teams stay focus on the delivery of value instead of the delivery of specific features or stories.

Why are PMs essential to A successful PI Planning event?

The PM is essential to a successful PI planning event, because they negotiate scope, socialize and contribute to the business value.

What does the R stands for in ROAM methodology?

The R = resolved because the risk has been addressed and is no longer a concern.

What is the average of minimum confident vote?

The average of 3 or higher is the minimum confident vote to move forward with a PI commitment.

When is the confident vote taking during the PI session

The confident vote is taken After dependencies are resolved and risk are addressed.

what value is the team trying to portray as a part PI objective?

The team is trying to describe the value and impacts.

Why do we assign a business value during the team breakout?

We assign business value during in the team break out because it helps Ranking supplied by the business that represents the importance of delivering each PI objective.

When a person vote in with less than 2 or fewer what should occur?

When a person votes 2 fingers or fewer should be given time to voice their concern which might add to the list of risks

Why should you not use in features as A PI objective?

You don't write features or stories as a part of the PI objective because these can change during the PI planning session.

When does a team present a draft plan?

a team present their draft plan with draft objective, potential risks, and dependencies drawer in the draft plan review.

How does uncommitted planned work helps improve team predictability?

uncommitted planned worked help team predictability when they deliver business value since they did not include in the team commitment.