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Planning a Program Increment
“Future product development tasks can’t be predetermined. Distribute planning and control to those who can understand and react to the end results.”
—Michael Kennedy, Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
Overview
“There is no magic in SAFe … except maybe for PI planning.”
—The authors
No event is more powerful in SAFe than PI planning. It’s the cornerstone of the Program Increment (PI), which provides the cadence and rhythm for the Agile Release Train (ART).
When 100 or so people work together at the same time, striving to achieve a common mission, vision, and shared purpose, it’s incredible how much alignment and energy their efforts create. Gaining that alignment in just two days can save months of delays ...
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