During PI Planning breakouts for the flood-warning ART, the team coach only asks, "Are you done yet?" What should those questions surface instead?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
"Are you done yet?" is a kitchen-timer question. Flood-warning breakouts need questions about what could drown the plan—risks, other teams, and how sure people actually are. A full board with hidden dependencies is not a plan.
Full Explanation
In PI Planning breakouts, powerful questions help a team inspect risks, cross-team dependencies, and confidence in objectives—not merely whether sticky notes cover the board. When the flood-warning ART coach only asks whether the team is done yet, the Scrum Master / Team Coach should redirect questions toward risks, dependencies, and confidence so flood-season plans are testable rather than merely complete-looking. Completeness theater does not protect residents who depend on timely warnings.
Scoring whether every seat is filled fails by concept: attendance is not a substitute for plan quality on a flood-warning train. Checking whether the Release Train Engineer already wrote the team's PI Objectives fails by concept because objectives should be owned and understood by the delivering team, not dictated as a completeness checkbox. Forcing story points to sum to last PI's velocity regardless of flood-season risk fails by concept: it optimizes arithmetic over risk-aware capacity for seasonal civic load.
Exam caveat: SAFe PI Planning and SASM coaching stress surfacing risks, dependencies, and confidence during breakouts; "are you done" is a weak facilitation question. Board completeness still matters—but only after risk and dependency conversations make the plan credible for municipal flood response.
Operational check: replace done-yet prompts with questions about top risks, named dependencies, and confidence votes; record risks visibly; confirm dependency owners; adjust objectives if confidence is low; and verify the next breakout spends time on risk and confidence before declaring the plan board complete.