Harness the Power of PI Planning with Distributed Teams!
"The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed."
By: Stephanie McCormick, PMP, CSP-SM, SPC
PCI in 2020 – Our Year in Review
Perhaps the best way to describe the year 2020 is as a metaphorical hurricane. Just as expert meteorologists can predict an impending storm well before it poses any real threat to the life and property of those in its path, health experts began to raise the alarm about the COVID-19 …
- Planning with a single source of truth and continued alignment into the Program Increment.
- Integrating with existing Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools so teams do not perform duplicate work.
- Allowing real time edits for fast paced changes within and among teams and plans are visible to all Agile Release Train stakeholders.
- Providing the powerful practices/tools of on-site events such as ROAM boards and dependency strings on Program Boards.
- Implementing Security – your plans are private to your Agile Release Train.
- First, consult Scaled Agile Framework itself for some great advice for PI Planning with distributed teams.
- Select the conferencing tool and breakout rooms that everyone can use –
- The Team Iteration Boards and Team Business Objectives
- The Program Board
- The Risk ROAM Board
- The Confidence Vote
- Full configuration of PI Planning App with customization
- Verification and QA check of the ALM sync
- Some visual customization of the app
- Set-up videoconferencing tools of customer’s choice
- Setting up users and roles
- Invites
- PI Planning App Training (content created by PCI with basic and advanced content)
- PDF handouts
- Tech check for all participants before the event starts
- Coaching services with “working agreements” or “business rules” for events/tools
- For government clientele – verification/security of account access
- Tech support for the entire event troubleshooting tools, piplanning app, access
- User Feedback data captured for client retrospective on PI Planning event
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Stephanie McCormick started her agile career in a custom dev shop after years of struggling with waterfall projects. Since starting her agile journey, she has enthusiastically embraced roles as a product owner and scrum master and is now a SAFe Program Consultant and Certified Scrum Professional. At PCI, she is a servant leader for government clients and looks forward to a bright future of predictable, sustainable delivery of delightful products.