Our Journey Towards Customer Success

We're excited to introduce Christopher Pola, who will be spearheading our new Customer Success initiative, which will drive more customer alignment and collaboration with piplanning.io. Read more about our new customer success initiative here.

Silvio Wandfluh

2 Minutes

Leave Chaos in the Past With WSJF

Here at Rentouch, when we imagine our perfect journey we want to be sitting in a high-speed wonder train. The journey should be smooth with everyone sure of their desired destination. Read the full story of how we make that happen.

Silvan Krähenbühl

5 Minutes

Our Adventure with Agile Santa

We met Santa Claus for a video shoot at his grotto and wanted to ask him what gifts he has in store for agilists this year… Here you have the full story.

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

How to Brief Your Way to Safer PI Planning

I think it’s vital to write another article on how you should prepare for the PI Planning event itself in remote conditions. Reaching out to dispersed collaborators can seem like a tricky process, but briefing with every group is key to staying safe in a distributed release train. Read on to get a grasp of our methods when it comes to communicating across teams and achieve the best possible alignment.

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

Reading your way to growth

Resources like podcasts and YouTube have revolutionized the ways we communicate and acquire knowledge. Valuable and practical as they are, however, we at Rentouch know what it’s like to feel closely tied to that ancient skill of reading.

Silvio Wandfluh

3 min

Keeping Compliance Agile

At a first glance, compliance and agile seem very distant, even conflicting. While the former sees variability as risk, for the latter that uncertainty comes as an opportunity to adapt and generate better outcomes and more valuable assets.

Raphael Sigg

1 min 20 secs

5 tips to make IP Iteration more effective

An IP iteration is wonderful for its ability to foster growth. Nothing helps your team discover new perspectives and redirect efforts like a fantastic plan for the times ahead.

Silvio Wandfluh

2 min read

Effective Timeboxing in Remote PI Planning

We all know it. We've been in our team breakout session for 30 minutes and we have no user stories planned yet. Instead, our conversations revolve around details.

Raphael Sigg

7 min read

The Magical Dependency Sticky

What are dependencies?, Why do we need a Dependency Sticky?, and how should we use it? … those are the questions tackled in this article.

Silvio Wandfluh

5 min read

The 5 Things Déjà Vu of PI Plannings

At one point every Release Train Engineer has his first PI Planning. Some things will go as expected but there will be more than five things that won’t go as planned. Don’t let it demotivate you...

Silvio Wandfluh

5 min read

Twinfield teams are PROS in mastering remote PI Plannings 👌

Twinfield is a leading online accounting software powered by Wolters Kluwer, which is an international provider of information services to finance, tax and administration professionals with around 19,000 employees in 150 countries.

Silvio Wandfluh

6 min read

The new piplanning app Setup Tool

Not too long ago I wrote an article about the new piplanning app icon. In this article I revealed some piece of background information and insights about why the piplanning app and the dedicated Setup Tool look the way they look.

Raphael Sigg

4 min read

Digital Boards for a distributed PI Planning

Executing PI Plannings with distributed teams is a challenge, especially in larger organizations. In that case there is no way around giving your teams possibilities to communicate, visualize and document across multiple locations simultaneously.

Silvio Wandfluh

5 min read

The natural way of SAFe® PI Plannings

I’ve already mentioned it before. We at Rentouch love sticky notes! Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to develop a tool that reflects the benefits of sticky notes as well as the piplanning app. It is always said that employees can only plan productively with pen and paper.

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

Planning in SAFe® – always a talking point

Everybody is talking about the challenges of distributed collaboration in companies. There are conferences, symposia and many blog posts on best practices dedicated to this topic. Often it’s only about the collaboration between three or fewer teams or even just between employees.

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

The new piplanning app icon

Our piplanning app has also changed with the new look of Rentouch. Admittedly, the changes are not yet very big. So far only the piplanning app icon has changed. There is also an additional modification of the icon for the piplanning app setup tool...

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

piplanning app Slack Community

Last October we quietly and secretly created the piplanning app Slack Community. It’s very quiet in there, since we never officially announced it. Only one person has registered. So we cannot yet speak of a “community”.

Raphael Sigg

2 min read

10 essentials for a distributed PI Planning (Part 2)

Develop on cadence is the heart beat of an Agile Release Train and the PI Planning essential to align teams across the ART. If the event runs with distributed teams, it takes place simultaneously at multiple locations. It’s no secret that doing distributed big room plannings is a challenge both operationally and communicatively.

Silvio Wandfluh

3 min read

10 essentials for a distributed PI Planning (Part 1)

Develop on cadence is the heart beat of an Agile Release Train and the PI Planning essential to align teams across the ART. If the event runs with distributed teams, it takes place simultaneously at multiple locations. It’s no secret that doing distributed big room plannings is a challenge both operationally and communicatively.

Silvan Wandfluh

3 min read

piplanning app Implementation Roadmap

As you might know we offer free 14 days trial for the piplanning app. Unfortunately, it often happens that customers do not register for the piplanning app until two days before the actual PI Planning. If no difficulties arise, the piplanning app can be put into operation within a day. We therefore prefer to expect some lead time...

Raphael Sigg

5 min read

Rentouch’s new look

Our focus has changed over the years. That’s not a bad thing. The world changes, people change, and so do companies. Rentouch is (fortunately) no exception in this respect. We knew early on that we would not be successful in the hardware business in the long term. A Swiss company that manufactures touchscreens in Switzerland...

Raphael Sigg

4 min read

The perfect distributed SAFe® PI Planning

Imagine 150 people, spread over 3 sites, plan for 2 days with paper sticky notes. The Program Boards, which visualize dependencies between the teams, even have to be managed and kept in sync at three different locations. Definitely not the best conditions...

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

Sync your SAFe® PI Planning with Jira

Everyone who’s a fan of paper sticky notes, who works in a Scrum or Kanban team and at the same time uses some ALM tool, has already thought about the optimal solution how these two worlds could be combined. Am I right? Now with one Scrum board of one team, the effort to keep it synchronized with an ALM tool is still manageable...

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

SAFe® PI Planning: digital vs. analog

When it comes to determining whether digital or analog tools should be used in the collaborative part of agile team planning, we suddenly find ourselves in an argument. There are, of course, two fronts in these disputes. On the one hand, there are the advocates of physical planning...

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

Why they choose the PI Planning App

Since its official launch in March, the PI Planning App has already been evaluated by several large organizations and used for their SAFe® PI Plannings. These are companies whose size means that they are no longer...

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

The ‘secret’ mission of the PI Planning App

The past few weeks we at Rentouch presented our brand-new PI Planning app to several SAFe® practitioners and enthusiasts. We received valuable feedback and insights into different perspectives of how PI Plannings are carried out...

Raphael Sigg

3 min read

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