PI Planning Preparation
In an agile environment, you want to plan just-in-time. Nevertheless, some preparation is still needed in order to have an efficient Program planning meeting:
- Create features
- Prioritize the features
- Select features for the next period
- Break down features in stories
More information on how to do that can be found on this page.
Create features
Features contain major business functionality.
To create a Feature:
- Click on the Create button in the top menu bar
- Select the project of the feature
- Select Epic as issue type (in Jira, features are encoded as epics)
- Fill in the Epic Name and Summary
- Click on the Create button
Prioritize features
The Product Manager defines the priority of the features within a program.
This priority is visible in a kanban board. High priority features are on top of the list, lower priority near the bottom.
To create feature kanban board:
- Click on the Boards in the top menu bar
- Select View all boards
- Click on Create Board
- Click on Create a Kanban Board
- Select Board from an existing project
- Choose a board name and select the Feature Project
- Click on the Create board button
Add a feature to a period
Usually a feature backlog contains too many features to be taken up in one period. A selection of features for the next Program (PI) Period is done by the business (Product Manager usually) .
To add a feature to a period:
- Select the period in the period picker (top left)
- Click on Feature Plan
- Click on Add Features (top right)
- Select the features you want to add
Break features down into stories
Teams prepare themselves for the Program (PI) planning. They define stories for the features.
To create a story and link it to a feature:
- Click on the Create button in the top menu bar
- Select the project of the team
- Choose the feature in the Epic Link
- Click on the Create button