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