SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises, Second edition

PI Objectives

Making and meeting small commitments builds trust. Ba must be energized with its own intentions.

—Nonaka and Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company

Program Increment (PI) Objectives are a summary of the business and technical goals that an Agile Team or train intends to achieve in the upcoming Program Increment (PI).

During PI planning, teams create PI objectives, which provide several benefits:

• Provide a common language for communicating with business and technology stakeholders

• Align the train with a shared mission

• Create the near-term vision, which teams can rally around and develop during the PI

• Enable the ART to assess its ...