PI Planning
There is nothing better than having everyone in the same room for PI, tribe or big room planning. But it’s not easy, it’s expensive and not everyone can travel. Kendis offers solution, which enables teams to plan together from different locations. It will help you manage digital program
PI Planning
“If everyone is moving forward, then success takes care of itself”- Henry Ford In the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE), the Agile Release Train (ART) is designed to deliver solutions by working around a Value Stream with the collaboration of multiple Agile Teams and stakeholders. While remaining steadfast to a
PI Planning
The most vital component of achieving anything of value and essentially the backbone of SAFe, is the Program Increment (PI). A Program Increment is timeboxed to 8-12 weeks, where an Agile Release Train, which is constituted of multiple agile teams work towards accomplishing the objectives of the PI. An Agile
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What is a Gantt Chart? Gantt Charts are an effective tool for planning, tracking and viewing the progress of any project. It visually presents all the information about the various tasks or phases of the project, their schedule and how they are related to each other. Gantt charts can also
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Tracking the progress of the Sprint or Program Increment is vital for any enterprise that is adopting an agile framework. Companies utilize digital boards to do this critical task which not only includes planning but monitoring features, estimates, dependencies, statuses, etc. Atlassian’s Jira is a powerful and popular bug
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There are certain words and phrases that are used regularly within the “Agile World”. For some, these words are anthems and a great consequence of their delivery method. The main difficulty is finding the right balance of these terms and maintaining them whilst scaling. For many, these are ambitions or
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One of the challenges in scaling is maintaining an insight into the actual progression of the value being delivered by multiple teams. There are various options for meetings and ceremonies that provide a holistic view. In the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), System Demo is a ceremony that ensures that the
PI Planning
PI objectives are a set of directives that are summarized to describe the technical and business elements of a goal that needs to be achieved by an agile team or an agile release train. They serve the basis of planning and aligning the outcomes of a program increment. PI objectives
PI Planning
Planning Release or Solution Trains can be an enormous task. With hundreds of individuals involved it is necessary to perfectly align them and to manage the workload efficiently. In order to perfectly execute it, a pre-planning session is held among key members of cross-functional agile teams. Participants of the Pre-Planning
PI Planning
When implementing the Scaled Agile Framework, planning and finalizing the contents of a Agile Release Train are done in the Program Increment (PI) Planning Session. Program Level planning is led by the Release Train Engineer. This planning and execution can appear as a daunting and challenging task. If some of
PI Planning
Program Increment sets a specific time period and objectives for the agile teams that are part of an Agile Release Train. In the Program Increment are multiple agile teams that are part of an Agile Release Train. SAFe uses “Cadence” and “Synchronization” to assist in combining the work of multiple