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PI Planning template for PowerPoint (SAFe)

A PI planning timeline shows one SAFe Planning Interval on one slide: a lane per agile team, each team's features sprint by sprint, and the PI milestones such as the system demo and the release. Use it to open PI planning, to report against the plan at the PI review, and to show leaders which team delivers what, and when.

Pro Agile & delivery timeline look. Included in PMO Pilot Pro.

PI Planning (SAFe) timeline look example slide: Release plan — PI 27.1
Shown on a sample plan: Release plan — PI 27.1. In the add-in, previews use your own data.

Download (.pptx, 14 KB) Fill it from your notes in PowerPoint

The download is the slide above, made of native PowerPoint shapes you can edit. No sign-up. To draw it from your own dates in the browser, use the free timeline maker. PMO Pilot, the PowerPoint add-in, fills it from notes or a spreadsheet and is free to install.

What's on the slide

  • One lane per team, named the way your ART names them
  • Sprints (iterations) as bars, labelled with the feature each delivers
  • PI milestones as hexagons: the PI demo and the release
  • Week start dates under the months, so sprint boundaries line up with the scale
  • The PI's dates on a solid band across the top

When to use it

SAFe PI planning and PI reviews: what each team delivers, sprint by sprint, in one Planning Interval.

How to make it in PMO Pilot

  1. Put the team in the Owner column (this look gives each owner a lane), features as tasks, and PI objectives and demos as milestones.
  2. Pick PI Planning (SAFe).
  3. Under Timescale & dates, set Timeline starts and ends to On dates I choose and enter the PI's first and last day.

Best for

Release train engineers, Scrum of scrums.

Bring your data from…

Column names are matched as each tool exports them: no mapping step.

Questions

How long is a PI, and how many sprints does the slide show?

SAFe calls the PI a Planning Interval and says it typically lasts 8 to 12 weeks. The usual pattern is four development iterations followed by one Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration, so with two-week sprints the slide covers about 10 weeks. Set the timeline's start and end to the PI's dates so the scale shows exactly that window.

Is this the same as the ART planning board?

No. The planning board from the PI planning event shows features, their delivery dates, dependencies between teams and milestones, usually on sticky notes. This slide is the clean version for people who weren't in the room. Add cross-team dependencies as relationships in Edit and they're drawn as arrows.

Where do PI objectives go?

Make each team's committed objectives milestones in that team's lane, dated to the sprint they land in. SAFe also has uncommitted objectives, planned but not promised because of unknowns; give those a different milestone shape or a lighter color so the difference shows on the slide.

Can I build it from a Jira export?

Yes. Export the issues to CSV with Summary, Assignee, Due date, Sprint and Parent summary, then use Upload Excel / CSV in Create; Jira's column names are read as they are. This look puts one lane per owner, so put the team name in the Assignee column, or set Style → Rows & spacing → Swimlanes to By workstream to lane by epic.

More Agile & delivery templates

Part of Agile and PI planning templates, with a guide to which one fits which meeting. All 80 timeline looks, each a free .pptx download.

From the blog

PI Planning (SAFe) timeline look example slide: Release plan — PI 27.1