PI Planning is everything of SAFe, undoubtedly sitting at the center of it.

Let us look at the reasoning of what makes PI planning so unique and helps out beat other formats of the lifecycle. 

• The critical ingredient of PI Planning is the mandate of stakeholder participation. Right from the executive sponsor to the one who sits in the last mile, whether it’s a developer, QA, DevOps engineer, etc.,
• It compels all the stakeholders to spend quality time thinking through Why, What, and How of the needs. In particular, the executives always ride on multiple priorities, the quality time to hear back from the ground and meaningfully connect it back to the business objective. This misalignment impacts a lot which is time, cost, money, resources, and the bottom line of the business
• Engagement among the stakeholders makes them realize the strength of collective success. It allows everyone to see the big picture and direct outcome of their efforts
• It STOPS communication leaks and faster decision-making at the business level, and that’s the right place to do. For example, an Agile Scrum team might try to do most of it at the individual scrum team level, which minimizes the impact