*This post is part of the series ‘SAFe Practice Tips’, which aims to offer helpful advice to anyone using SAFe.
As a SAFe® Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) I can’t remember how many PI Planning events I facilitated and attended last year. However, what I do know is that this is a seminal event in SAFe, which aims to create alignment with the Teams, the Product Management, the Architects and Business Owners.
“Program Increment (PI) Planning is a cadence-based, face-to-face event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision.”
PI Planning is essential to SAFe - If you are not doing PI Planning, you are not doing SAFe.
Over the last 2 years, I have been experimenting with different techniques and practices which I thought I would share with you. The first one is regarding Business Context and Team Space