PI PlanningSeamless PI Planning across teams & Time zones
Distributed PI Planning with Kendis – Bridging Geographical Gaps in remote Planning. Master the art of synchronizing teams globally with our efficient, location-independent PI Planning solution.
TRack yuor PI
Go beyond just PI Planning. With kendis, you can also track your PI with ease.
Say goodbye to all the boring and manual work to keep your ALM tool and PI Boards in sync. Kendis offers real-time two-way sync with Jira and Microsoft Azure Boards that helps save the valuable time of RTEs, scrum masters and team members.
Top Three Challenges
Research shows that top three challenges for a successful PI Planning are—
Effective Collaboration
Ensuring seamless team interaction and cooperation across the Agile Release Train (ART).
Transparency and Alignment
Maintaining clarity and consistency in objectives and progress throughout the ART.
Efficient Decision Making
Making timely, effective decisions that positively influence project outcomes.
Program Board
real-time digital Program Board
Kendis addresses these challenges with its real-time digital Program Board, designed to facilitate—
Plan Effectively, Effortlessly
Kendis program board enables teams to plan together remotely in a simple, visual and powerful manner. The digital solution helps you plan your PI without any compromises, complexities, and any data lost in translation.
Team and PI Objectives
Objectives are a summary of the goals for the Release Train. During PI execution get the real-time updates on the progress of each objective on your board.
Capture Dependencies
Understanding your dependencies is crucial for your PI success. Create, plan and track cross-team, color-coded, auto updated dependencies synced to your ALM tool.
ROAMing Risks
ROAMing risks is an essential part of a PI planning process. Kendis Risk Register and Risk Matrix smartly streamline risks and evaluate each risk’s severity level.
Prioritised Features
Kendis pulls the features from the prioritized Program backlog in ALM into a sprint, expands the feature card and can create stories by providing story title and estimate.
Confidence Vote
- Confidence voting for the whole Release Train
- Confidence voting for the selected teams
- Participation of the non Kendis users in your organization, in your Confidence voting session through a unique secure URL.
Planning Scrum of Scrums
Efficiently plan your Scrum of Scrums with the Kendis Program Board. It automatically captures all your work while focusing on cross-team dependencies and impediments, ensuring nothing is missed.
Objectives are a summary of the goals for the Release Train. During PI execution get the real-time updates on the progress of each objective on your board.
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Understanding your dependencies is crucial for your PI success. Create, plan and track cross-team, color-coded, auto updated dependencies synced to your ALM tool.
Watch Video
ROAMing risks is an essential part of a PI planning process. Kendis Risk Register and Risk Matrix smartly streamline risks and evaluate each risk’s severity level.
Watch Video
Kendis pulls the features from the prioritized Program backlog in ALM into a sprint, expands the feature card and can create stories by providing story title and estimate.
Watch Video
- Confidence voting for the whole Release Train
- Confidence voting for the selected teams
- Participation of the non Kendis users in your organization, in your Confidence voting session through a unique secure URL.
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Planning your Scrum of Scrums Kendis Program Board ensures that all of your work is captured, focusing on the cross-team dependencies and impediments, automatically.
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Measure What Matters
Planning is just the beginning of a PI. To execute a seamless PI you need a solution that keeps track, measures the impact and ensures that each story of every feature takes you closer to your goals.
PI Objectives Tracking
Quantifiably evaluate the progress and achievement of your ART by the real-time 360 coverage of objectives, linking objectives to features or team stories on your board.
Dependencies Management
Summarize all your PI dependencies into one meaningful and simple dynamic solution that automates dependency status updates throughout the PI according to the triggers you select.
Risk Register Tracking
Address and visualise the present and upcoming risks of your Program Increment, sprint or iteration to swiftly identify and smoothly mitigate them.
Feature Tracking
Visualise features progress, development, addition and removal, across sprints and teams in a simple and easy manner.
Scope Change Tracking
Track your PI’s scope and other changes post-planning, saving yourself hours of manual work and eliminating the possibility of human error.
Analytics
Collaborate for the completion of a Release Train with a wholesome overview of all activities on your Program Board summarized into graphical and tabular formats.
Smart Reports
Keep a razor sharp focus on measuring what matters with Smart Reports providing an intelligent day by day progress view for your PI and program board.
Quantifiably evaluate the progress and achievement of your ART by the real-time 360 coverage of objectives, linking objectives to features or team stories on your board.
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Summarize all your PI dependencies into one meaningful and simple dynamic solution that automates dependency status updates throughout the PI according to the triggers you select.
Watch Video
Address and visualise the present and upcoming risks of your Program Increment, sprint or iteration to swiftly identify and smoothly mitigate them.
Watch Video
Visualise features progress, development, addition and removal, across sprints and teams in a simple and easy manner.
Watch Video
Track your PI’s scope and other changes post-planning, saving yourself hours of manual work and eliminating the possibility of human error.
Watch Video
Collaborate for the completion of a Release Train with a wholesome overview of all activities on your Program Board summarized into graphical and tabular formats.
Watch Video
Keep a razor sharp focus on measuring what matters with Smart Reports providing an intelligent day by day progress view for your PI and program board.
Watch Video
Execute Successfully
With a deliberate focus on SAFe’s principles of effective PI planning, Kendis provides the perfect digital facilitation to help your teams participate in each PI ceremony both in letter and spirit.
Program Increment Planning
Kendis Program Board enables your teams to interpret prioritized features in line with the team capacity. Stories will be created instantly in Jira, linked to the feature and placed in sprint. All within a single click.
Systems Demo
A working system is an essential requirement of a successful PI. From its digital vantage standpoint Kendis employs its uniquely powerful reporting strength and summarizes the entire PI into customizable, shareable reports.
Scrum of scrums
Responding to all the operational concerns, the dedicated area for Scrum of Scrums allows users to input their weekly impediments and keep track of any Program/team scope changes.
Inspect & Adapt
Using the purpose-built Kendis I&A algorithm, you can avail Program Performance Report, Program Delivery Report, Program Predictability Matrix, and Program Performance Measurements all within your Program Board.
Kendis Program Board enables your teams to interpret prioritized features in line with the team capacity. Stories will be created instantly in Jira, linked to the feature and placed in sprint. All within a single click.
A working system is an essential requirement of a successful PI. From its digital vantage standpoint Kendis employs its uniquely powerful reporting strength and summarizes the entire PI into customizable, shareable reports.
Responding to all the operational concerns, the dedicated area for Scrum of Scrums allows users to input their weekly impediments and keep track of any Program/team scope changes.
Using the purpose-built Kendis I&A algorithm, you can avail Program Performance Report, Program Delivery Report, Program Predictability Matrix, and Program Performance Measurements all within your Program Board.
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what our clients think about us
“Kendis is so intuitive that we started using it for PI Planning and Tracking immediately after a 20 minute training session, and it has allowed us to work effortlessly with multiple remote teams.”
John Groom
Senior Scrum Master, Director at Thales
“With Kendis we really managed to bring our PI Planning event to the next level. Some of the key features we’ve been using are the Dependency Map, the Objectives Board, and the Analytics Board which supports us to be more accurate by making data driven decisions.”
Juliano Tripodi
Agile Delivery Lead at Electrolux
“Excellent tool for Planning with multiple teams - ideal for agile teams using scaling.”
Miguel V.
Product Owner at Capterra