SAFe · pillar 3 of 6
Cadence — the Planning Interval
The timebox everything else hangs off, and the event people most often misname.
- 7 Planning Interval, formerly Program Increment A Planning Interval (PI) is a cadence-based timebox in which Agile Release Trains deliver continuous value in alignment…
- 8 PI Planning is not Sprint Planning at scale PI Planning is a cadence-based event for the entire ART that aligns teams and stakeholders to a shared mission and…
- 9 The IP iteration is not spare capacity Every PI contains an Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration. It is an estimating buffer for meeting PI Objectives, and…
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