Facilitating PI Planning

RTE · 30 questions

• Two weeks before PI Planning, the municipal utilities billing ART Program Backlog is still unrefined and unprioritized. Which preparation gap should the RTE treat as a must-fix?
• Facilities booked only a single auditorium and forgot breakout rooms and visualization boards for on-site PI Planning of the public works work-order ART. What readiness issue should the RTE raise?
• Remote airport operations digital ART PI Planning has no tested video, breakout, or collaboration tools. What should the RTE do in preparation?
• Business Owners for the court case-management ART have not seen the draft vision or business-context briefing. What should the RTE do before PI Planning?
• Holiday calendars and shared-service allocations for the fire-EMS records ART were never collected, so capacity for the next PI is unknown. What PI Planning preparation is missing?
• System Architects for the social-services eligibility ART have no enabler candidates or architecture guidance ready for the upcoming PI. What readiness gap should the RTE close?
• The open-data and civic-engagement ART RTE has published no agenda, timeboxes, or facilitator backups for PI Planning. What preparation is still required?
• Product Management arrives at fleet telematics ART PI Planning without a prioritized feature list. What content-readiness failure does this represent?
• New team members on the city permits portal ART never received role training before their first PI Planning. What should the RTE treat as a preparation item?
• Prep for the county tax-assessment ART never reviewed the previous PI's unresolved risks and unfinished objectives. What input is the RTE missing?
• Security and compliance shared services are invited for the first time on the morning of municipal transit fare-system ART PI Planning. What should the RTE have done?
• The public-health immunization registry ART has no definition of how confidence votes or ROAM will be captured. What should the RTE lock down in preparation?
• Executives scheduled a conflicting all-hands over Day 1 of library consortium digital-services ART PI Planning. What preparation action should the RTE take?
• Historical data shows the parks reservation and facility ART overcommits by about 40 percent each PI. How should the RTE use that in preparation?
• The wastewater SCADA modernization ART RTE skips the PI Planning readiness checklist because the train has run the event before. What is the sound RTE stance?
• Day 1 of PI Planning on the 911 CAD/RMS integration ART jumps straight to team breakouts with no business context or vision presentations. What facilitation element is missing?
• During breakouts, school-district student-information ART teams never update a program board or other dependency visualization. What should the RTE facilitate?
• Risks on the state DMV licensing ART are listed on a wall but never classified. What facilitation should the RTE run?
• Facilitators on the city housing-voucher ART want to skip the confidence vote to save time. What should the RTE do?
• Business Owners on the county elections systems ART never assign business value to PI Objectives. What should the RTE facilitate?
• Management review finds the municipal utilities billing ART plan unfeasible, but the RTE still closes PI Planning on time. What should the RTE have done?
• One loud stakeholder dominates Q&A during public works work-order ART PI Planning. How should the RTE facilitate?
• Teams on the airport operations digital ART write PI Objectives that are vague task lists. What should the RTE coach during facilitation?
• Day 2 of court case-management ART PI Planning starts without reconciling Day 1 dependencies or management-review adjustments. What facilitation step is missing?
• A multi-site fire-EMS records ART leaves remote stations offline during the confidence vote and risk ROAM. What should the RTE change?
• The RTE for a social-services eligibility ART opens PI Planning with a two-hour recap of last PI's burn-downs, ticket counts, and missed stories, and draft plans for the next increment never start. What should the RTE do?
• During PI Planning for an open-data and civic-engagement ART, System Architects start a three-hour monologue on every platform decision before draft-plan breakouts begin. How should the RTE facilitate?
• On a fleet telematics ART, every team writes only committed PI Objectives and refuses to identify uncommitted or stretch items, even for work they know is uncertain. What should the RTE facilitate?
• After PI Planning for a city permits portal ART, parking-lot issues captured during breakouts are left on sticky notes that get thrown away with the room reset. What close-out should the RTE ensure?
• At the end of PI Planning, a county tax-assessment ART has a stack of team PI Objectives but no ART-level PI Objectives that summarize the train's outcomes. What should the RTE facilitate next?