Leadership for PI Planning

During the confidence vote, the Agile Release Train (ART) receives a low score, primarily due to concerns about a critical dependency on an external supplier. How should the leadership team respond?

You are the Release Train Engineer (RTE) for an ART that is distributed across three time zones. During the second day of PI Planning, you notice that the draft plan review is running long and some remote teams are disengaging. The business owners are present but have not yet provided feedback on several team plans. What is the most effective action to take as the RTE to ensure a successful final plan review?

As a Product Owner on an ART, you are preparing for the upcoming PI Planning. You want to ensure that your team's PI Objectives are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) and aligned with the ART's business context. Which two actions should you take during PI Planning to achieve this? (Choose two.)

During the first day of PI Planning, the Product Manager notices that the team is struggling to estimate stories due to vague requirements. What is the most effective leadership action?

What is the most critical outcome of the 'Program PI Objectives' session?

You are a Product Owner in an ART that is conducting PI Planning. During the team breakout session, your team identifies a critical dependency on an external vendor that is not part of the ART. The dependency could delay a key feature. What is the most appropriate action for your team to take during PI Planning?

What is the primary role of the Chief Scrum Master or Release Train Engineer (RTE) during the PI Planning process?

An Agile Release Train is finalizing its PI plan, but one critical team has a high-confidence objective that relies heavily on an external supplier who has not confirmed their delivery date. As a servant leader, what should the Release Train Engineer and Product Management advise the team to do?

During the second day of PI Planning, a team presents a draft plan that includes a stretch objective to integrate a new payment gateway. The team's confidence vote is only two fingers (out of five). The Business Owner for that team believes the objective is critical for the upcoming release. What is the most appropriate leadership action?

A newly formed Agile Release Train is conducting its first PI Planning. The Product Manager notices that during the team breakouts, some teams are not including any stretch objectives in their plans. What should the Product Manager do to guide the teams according to SAFe?

During the second day of PI Planning, a team's confidence vote results in a low confidence score. The team's Scrum Master explains that the team is concerned about a dependency on another team that has not yet confirmed its delivery date. As a leader participating in the problem-solving session, what is the most effective action?

Refer to the exhibit. The ROAMing session has not yet been conducted. What is the leader's next step?

An Agile Release Train is preparing for its second PI Planning event. The Release Train Engineer notices that business owners historically attend only the final plan review, skipping the vision briefing and draft plan reviews. As a SAFe Product Manager, what should you recommend to improve alignment and outcomes?

Which TWO of the following leadership behaviors effectively support the PI Planning process?

A SAFe Product Owner is facilitating the team breakout during PI Planning. One team member suggests that they skip creating a draft plan and instead wait for the final plan review to see what other teams propose. What should the Product Owner do?

An Agile Release Train has completed its first PI Planning event. The Release Train Engineer and Product Manager are debriefing with the Business Owners about the leadership behaviors that most influenced the quality of the resulting plan. Which two leadership actions during PI Planning most directly improved plan quality and alignment? (Choose two.)

An Agile Release Train is preparing for its PI Planning event. The Release Train Engineer asks you, as a leader, to help ensure that the event will produce a plan that teams can confidently commit to. Which two actions best demonstrate effective leadership before and during PI Planning? (Choose two.)

A newly formed Agile Release Train is preparing for its first PI Planning event. The Product Manager is drafting the agenda and wants to ensure the event opens with the right leadership content. Which activity should open the first day of PI Planning?

As a Product Owner for a team in an ART, you are participating in PI Planning. Your team has just finished creating their draft PI Objectives. What is the next step your team should take to ensure their objectives are aligned with business priorities?

A team has identified a major dependency on an external supplier that is not committed to the PI plan. How should the Release Train Engineer (RTE) or leader address this?

During the management review and problem-solving meeting, leadership faces severe capacity constraints due to heavy technical debt and architectural runway depletion. Which THREE actions should leaders take to address this structural challenge? (Choose three.)

During the management review and problem-solving meeting on the first night of PI Planning, leadership realizes that the combined team backlogs exceed the available team capacity by thirty percent. What is the most effective leadership action to resolve this systemic overload?

During PI Planning, the Release Train Engineer notices that the Product Management team has not provided clear prioritization for the features in the Program Backlog. As a result, teams are unsure which features to plan first. What should the RTE do to ensure effective planning?

Why should leaders encourage the use of the 'Confidence Vote' at the end of PI Planning?

During PI Planning, the Product Manager is facilitating the development of the Program PI Objectives. Which two actions should the Product Manager take to ensure the objectives are effective? (Choose two.)

What is the most appropriate action for a leader if a team expresses low confidence during the vote?

You are the Release Train Engineer for a 120-person Agile Release Train preparing for its third PI Planning event. The Product Management group has just delivered a draft vision and a prioritized backlog that contains 30 percent more scope than the train delivered in the previous PI. During the business context briefing, you notice several Product Owners and Scrum Masters exchanging worried glances. As a leader, what is the most effective action to take before the teams begin drafting their plans?

At the end of PI Planning, the confidence vote reveals that two teams have low confidence (2 out of 5). The Product Manager and Release Train Engineer are concerned. What should leadership do first to address the low confidence?

Refer to the exhibit. Given the high number of blockers and low resolution rate, what is the primary responsibility of Leadership during PI Planning to address this?

An Agile Release Train is holding its PI Planning event. During the draft plan review, the Product Management group notices that two teams have planned work that directly conflicts with a compliance requirement that must be satisfied before the end of the PI. The teams are unaware of the requirement because it was not included in the draft vision. As a leader in the room, what is the most appropriate action?

During PI Planning, a Business Owner expresses concern that the proposed PI Objectives do not align with the strategic intent for the next quarter. What is the most effective leadership action to resolve this?

An Agile Release Train (ART) is preparing for its second PI Planning event. The Release Train Engineer (RTE) asks the Product Management team to ensure that the vision and top features are ready before the event. One Product Manager argues that presenting a detailed, fixed list of features with exact acceptance criteria will save time during planning. What should the Product Manager do instead to align with SAFe guidance for the PI Planning readiness?

An Agile Release Train is in the second day of PI Planning. During the draft plan review, the Release Train Engineer notes that two teams have planned work that depends on a shared component owned by a third team, but no agreement on delivery dates exists. The Product Manager is asked how to proceed. What should the Product Manager do first?

What is the primary purpose of the 'Management Review' at the end of Day 1 of PI Planning?

Which THREE leadership traits are most vital for managing the 'ROAM' risk board during PI Planning?

Which TWO of the following leadership behaviors effectively support the PI Planning process? (Choose two)

A Business Owner is consistently pushing teams to commit to more features than their calculated capacity allows. What is the best way to handle this situation?

Midway through the second day of PI Planning, the Release Train Engineer observes that the management review and problem-solving session is running long because several teams have escalated issues that require Business Owner decisions on scope trade-offs. The Product Manager wants to help the session be more effective. What should the Product Manager do?

Refer to the exhibit. Although Total Capacity equals Total Demand, the team-level distribution is skewed. What should leadership do?

You are a Business Owner for an Agile Release Train. During the PI Planning event, a team presents a draft plan that includes several stretch objectives. The team's Product Owner explains that the stretch objectives represent work the team hopes to complete if capacity allows. As a Business Owner, what should you do during the draft plan review?

An Agile Release Train's Business Owners are preparing for the upcoming PI Planning event. During the event, they must participate in the Business Context session to share the vision and strategic direction. What should the Business Owners primarily communicate during this session to best enable teams to create aligned PI Objectives?

What is the primary responsibility of business owners during PI Planning execution?

You are a Product Manager for an Agile Release Train (ART) preparing for an upcoming PI Planning event. You want to ensure that the Business Owners can effectively fulfill their role during the event. Which of the following should you emphasize as the primary responsibility of Business Owners during PI Planning?

During PI Planning, a Scrum Master reports that their team's draft plan includes several dependencies on another ART that is not present at the event. The team is unsure how to proceed. As a SAFe Product Manager, which TWO actions should you take to help the team? (Choose two.)

Which THREE of the following are key responsibilities of leadership during the PI Planning 'Final Plan Review'?

During PI Planning, a leader notices that several teams are struggling to define their PI Objectives in a way that is measurable and aligned with the ART's strategic themes. Which two actions should the leader take to improve the quality of the PI Objectives? (Choose two.)

You are a Product Manager for an ART that is conducting its first PI Planning event. During the business context session, you need to present the current market situation, customer needs, and portfolio priorities to set the stage for planning. What is the primary purpose of this business context presentation?

You are a Product Manager for an Agile Release Train (ART) preparing for its second PI Planning event. During the first PI, business owners were passive observers and only attended the final plan review. For the upcoming PI, you want them to actively fulfill their role during the two-day event. Which action best describes how business owners should participate during PI Planning?

An ART is halfway through PI Planning. During the draft plan review, it becomes clear that two teams have planned to modify the same shared microservice in conflicting ways, which could cause integration failures. The teams have not yet discussed this dependency. As a leader, what is the most effective action to take at this moment?

A SAFe Product Manager is observing the final plan review. One team presents a PI Objective that is vague and lacks measurable outcomes. The team's Product Owner argues that the objective is intentionally broad to allow flexibility. What should the Product Manager do?

Which of these is a key leadership responsibility during the final 'Plan Review' on Day 2 of PI Planning?

An Agile Release Train is preparing for its second PI Planning event. The Release Train Engineer notices that several Product Owners from different teams are proposing features that overlap in functionality, and dependencies between teams are unclear. As a leader, what should you do before the event to improve alignment and reduce duplication?

During PI Planning, a team identifies that their proposed plan will only deliver 60% of the requested features. How should leadership respond?

During the second day of PI Planning, a team's draft plan reveals that they have committed to a stretch objective that depends on a feature owned by another team that is not yet planned. The team's confidence vote is low. As a leader, what is the most appropriate action to facilitate resolution?

During the final plan review of PI Planning, a team presents an objective that is business-critical but has low confidence because it depends on a vendor delivering an integration two weeks into the PI. The Business Owners are present. What is the most appropriate leadership action?

What is the main goal of the Management Review and Problem Solving session during PI Planning?

A Product Manager is participating in the management review and problem-solving session at the end of PI Planning. The ART has identified several risks that could not be resolved during the event, including a critical skill gap and a dependency on an external vendor. What is the most appropriate action for the Product Manager in this session?

During PI Planning, a team claims they cannot meet their objectives due to lack of environment access. What is the leadership's responsibility?

A Business Owner is pushing to add a new, high-priority feature to the PI midway through the second day. What should the Product Manager recommend?

An Agile Release Train is conducting its first PI Planning event. During the draft plan review, management observes that multiple teams have unresolved cross-team dependencies that threaten their proposed objectives. Which TWO leadership behaviors are critical to support the teams in resolving this challenge? (Choose two.)

A Product Manager is facilitating the PI Planning event and notices that the Business Owners are not actively participating in the draft plan review. What is the most important reason for Business Owners to engage during this review?