Planning Interval (PI) Area
Build & automate any PI & Iteration cycle
Power through your Projects & Products with VelocityTool’s all-in-one Planning Interval (PI) and Iteration area to save time, achieve goals with foster collaboration.
Pre PI Planning
Setup OKR’s with Teams & Stakeholders for PI Planning
This collaborative Pre PI-Planning space for team and stakeholder preparation before PI Planning to review and prioritize Features. It helps ensure alignment and readiness by defining preliminary PI objectives.
PI Planning
Quarterly planning to ensure transparency & alignment
Teams plan, collaborate & align PI Objectives in real-time:
- Breakout Planning: Plan & manage iterations, assign Stories, estimate Capacity.
- Program Board: Visualize Dependencies, Milestones & Objectives across teams in real time.
- Risk Management: Identify, track & manage risks via ROAM (Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated).
- PI Objectives: Draft & finalize Team & Program level Objectives, linked to Stories & Features for traceability.
- Alignment Metrics: Real-time Feature progress, PI Burnup, Feature & User Story Cycle Time, Scope Change, Commitments & Outcomes based on Business Objectives.
Iteration Area
Gateway to the complete lifecycle of an Agile Iteration
Supports Teams to plan execute, monitor and review their work. It serves as the core cycle for delivering value incrementally through the 5 key events:
- Iteration Planning: Define Goals, manage Stories Backlog and estimate Effort.
- Daily Stand Up (DSU): Track progress, address blockers, stay aligned in real-time.
- Backlog Refinement: Refine and prioritize Stories to prepare for upcoming iterations.
- Iteration Review: Showcase completed work, gather feedback, validate deliverables.
- Retrospective: Reflect on successes, challenges, improvements using actionable insights.
PI Review
Inspect & Adapt from PI Progress & Outcomes
Can be conducted during PI execution & after completion including:
- PI Checkpoints: Teams review progress toward PI objectives, ensuring alignment, addressing emerging risks or blockers.
- Dependency Tracking: Evaluate and resolve Dependencies that may impact delivery.
- Objective Status: Monitor completion status of Team and Program level objectives.
- Final Review: After PI ends, assess overall Performance, Objective achievement & alignment with Business Goals.
- PI Burnup Reports: Provide clear, data-driven insights into progress, helping teams & value streams stay on track & make informed decisions.
PI Retrospective
Helping Teams & Stakeholders to improve for the upcoming PI
Structured, actionable approach to improving Processes & Outcomes for future PI’s with Teams & Stakeholders.
PI Planning Area Features
Everything you need to stay organized, get work done, smarter never harder
Auto Team Velocity for PI and Iteration
Automatically generated for you based on the team’s completed items and is viewable as Story Points, Features and User Stories.