Absolute PI Tool for Release Train Engineers
Quite a handful of tools in the market aim to help with your PI Planning. However, all of them compromise on delivering upon the essence of SAFe principles in virtual execution of the Planning. All, but Kendis.
Don’t just stop at PI planning. Plan and track your PI with us
With a 100% real-time program board now you can plan and measure the impact of your PI each sprint of the way!
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Integrations
2-way sync with Jira and Azure Boards
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.
challenges
Research shows that top three challenges for a successful PI Planning are—
Effective collaboration
Transparency and alignment across the ART
Efficient and impactful decision making
Program Board
Kendis responds to these challenges by a real-time digital Program Board that facilitates for you—
Planning
Plan effectively, efortlessly
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.
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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
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.
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.
Watch Video
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
Kendis offers:
- 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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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.
Tracking
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.
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.
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Address and visualise the present and upcoming risks of your Program Increment, sprint or iteration to swiftly identify and smoothly mitigate them.
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Visualise features progress, development, addition and removal, across sprints and teams in a simple and easy manner.
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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.
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ART Ceremonies
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.
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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.
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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.
Watch Video
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.
Watch Video
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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Testimonial
“We have been able to collaborate remote without physical meetings. Without Kendis, PI Planning was a series of physical events with thousands of employees traveling within the Nordics and Poland.” Roy Boven, RTE
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