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Define: "PI Planning" in Business
Fiscal Threat Level
HIGH
Multi-headcount capital waste
CWO Pro-Tip
"A multi-day agile nightmare. Bring a book."
What HR thinks it means:
Program Increment Planning, a cadenceCadenceHow frequently we will interrupt your actual work to ask if your actual work is done.-based event for aligning Agile teams.
What does "PI Planning" actually mean?
"Trapping 150 engineers in a room for two days to play with sticky notes while the network burns."
How HR uses it:
"Please ensure all your feature requests are documented before we enter PI Planning."
How you actually use it:
"We wasted three days in PI Planning writing impossible commitments on sticky notes that will be completely irrelevant by next Wednesday."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
Published: 2026-03-01