PI Planning
This provides a visual context for the planned and completed work towards the solution.
What is the product (or PI) roadmap?
These defined business and technical goals help improve alignment and trust between development and business stakeholders.
What are PI Objectives?
This is assigned to a PI Objective, not calculated, and serves as an input to PI execution considerations.
What is Business Value?
This Agile Release Train (ART) event is the largest, cadence-based opportunity for the whole ART to come together to reflect on progress and identify the systemic impediments they're facing.
What is the Inspect and Adapt ceremony?
There is no magic in SAFe . . . except maybe for this.
PI Planning
This critical input to PI planning is prepped through the entire planning increment (PI) leading up to the upcoming PI. (2 possible right answers)
What are draft Program PI objectives?
What is a list of prioritized, refined features that are ready for development?
This acronym is used to define well-written PI objectives.
What is SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achieveable, Realistic, Time-Bound)?
This PI Planning activity provides an essential face-to-face dialogue between the team and their most important stakeholders, the Business Owners.
What is Assigning Business Value?
This ART role is often responsible for gathering data, analyzing it to identify potential issues, and facilitating the presentation of the findings during the I&A.
What is the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?
During PI Planning, this role is involved with story definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing.
What is the Product Owner?
This visualization of cross-team dependencies identifies coordination points and highlights risk in the Planning Increment.
What is the Program Board?
Work that is planned, but the outcome is not certain, due to dependencies, lack of technical experience, or capacity.
What is uncommitted objectives?
This key ART role is ready and available to participate in the presentation of vision, draft plan review, assigning business value to team PI objectives, and approving final plans.
What is the Business Owner?
This technique uses the principle that 20 percent of the causes are responsible for 80 percent of the problem.
What is the Pareto Analysis (80/20 rule)?
This role uses the program PI objectives to update the roadmap and will improve the forecast for the next two PIs, based on what was just learned.
What is Product Management?
Calculated by the team for each iteration (sprint) based upon past performance, this determines how much work can be slotted into each iteration.
What is capacity?
While PI objectives focus on the desired business outcome, these define the work that needs to be done to achieve the business outcome.
What are features and stories?
Business Value assignment later informs this key metric which serves as an indicator of program performance and reliability.
What is Program Predictability Measure (PPM)?
The Inspect & Adapt event consists of these three elements.
What is the PI System Demo, ART Metrics, and Problem Solving Workshop?
Teams resolve identified program risks and impediments that could impact their ability to meet their PI objectives by doing this.
What is ROAMing them?
Work that cannot be committed to in PI planning is moved here so that business owners and product management can reprioritize and plan accordingly.
What is the Program Backlog?
Team objectives should be tied to these to ensure alignment to business goals and vision.
What is the PI Program Objectives?
Because of inevitable twists and turns after PI Planning, assigning business value to PI objectives guides the teams in these 2 types of PI plan adjustments.
What are tradeoffs and minor scope adjustments?
This American inventor is credited with saying "A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved."
Who is Charles Kettering?
This iteration does not have work planned and is used as an estimation buffer and provides dedicated time for innovation, continuing education, and planning for the next PI.
What is the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration?