Online PI planning board

Online PI planning board for collaborative agile teams

Strategize your product, reach alignment faster, and coordinate your actions across teams from anywhere in a single source of truth. The Mural platform has the tools your teams need to understand dependencies, prioritize your backlog, and conduct program increment planning.

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PI planning for scaled agile (SAFe) with Mural

Get started quickly and easily with a free PI Planning template, or build your own from scratch in minutes.
Organize, analyze, and prioritize feedback and next steps with color coding or by using tags for sticky notes.
Make facilitation easy with features like timer, anonymous voting, and Private Mode.
Collaborate in real-time or asynchronously to speak up decision-making and improve the planning process.
Define PI objectives, build a roadmap using the scaled agile framework, and define milestones from anywhere.

Bring your whole organization together with a visual collaboration platform built for scale. Mural facilitates cross-functional teamwork by elevating every voice, increasing velocity and decision making. Organize your information, collect feedback, refine your next steps, and build a plan that brings it to life.

Start from a blank canvas or with one of many PI Planning, Agile, or Scrum templates, built by experts.
Each template includes facilitation features and tips to guide your team through each activity.
Seamlessly add collaborators and work with your in-person and distributed teams from anywhere.
Run an engaging real-time session face-to-face and in-pereson, or run a hybrid event with remote teams.
Embed or export a visual representation of your PI Planning ceremony to share with anyone, inside or outside Mural.
Export tasks to Jira and quickly move from the program board to product launch.

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PI planning FAQs

What is PI planning?

PI Planning stands for Program Increment Planning. Teams using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) schedule these two-day events every eight to 12 weeks depending on the length of their increments. These planning sessions or ceremonies give big teams a chance to coordinate and integrate the actions of smaller team units. Read our full resource on PI Planning.

How is PI planning done?

PI planning ceremonies typically follow a similar agenda spread over the course of multiple days. They are structured so that everyone involved, across all teams, can gain a better understanding of the business context, the problems and proposed solutions, the strategies and tactics for achieving those goals, and a confidence vote to ensure alignment before taking action.

During the span of the PI planning session agenda, stakeholders agree on what metrics will be followed, how much business value each project will deliver, what timelines will be followed, and what projects from the program backlog will be prioritized. Ideally, each iteration of PI planning should result in a clear understanding of what work will be completed among scrum masters, product owners, release train engineers (RTE), and agile team members.

How is PI planning different from sprint planning?

Rather than focusing on short-term goals within specific teams, PI planning is a way to bring multiple teams or whole organizations together in order to collaborate and solve high-level problems through holistic strategies. Sprints form one part of the process, after PI planning ceremonies have helped outline issues and establish strategies and tactics for resolving them.