The Role of PI Objectives
By Eric Willeke, SAFe Fellow
Introduction
The role of PI Objectives is often misunderstood by teams new to PI Planning. They struggle at first to understand the difference between Team PI objectives and Features. SAFe does not provide a lot of guidance on the intent behind the usage of PI objectives, and they are often misunderstood or misinterpreted. In my field practice, I’ve come to really value them, so I wanted to take the time to document my perspective in this guidance chapter.
PI objectives support development in the following ways:
Validate understanding of intent
Focus alignment on outcomes rather than process ...
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