“Within Optos Product Development we run an ART across 13 teams, based in both the UK and Japan. Initially we carried out PI Planning with written notes and flipcharts – this worked reasonably well, however the piplanning app has made the sessions even more productive and solved several communication and efficiency challenges. Feedback for improvements are readily accepted by Rentouch, with several of our suggestions already having made it into the product. We have found that in order to get the full benefits of the piplanning app and SAFe everyone needs a way to display their board, both for stakeholders to visualise what they are doing and as a central point for the teams to talk around. To date we have carried out our PI Plannning in one room, with colleagues coming from Japan for the event. Going forward we will be undertaking some of our planning in a distributed setting where we can foresee the piplanning app having even greater benefits.”
Paul Field
RTE, Engineering Programme Manager, Optos
“Rentouch's piplanning app is key for our PI Planning meetings! The piplanning app creates a clear view of all the team’s plans, risks and objectives. Teams could share at any moment with any stakeholder their plans and also collaborate during the Program board creation! It provides us an incredible visual and clear view of the picked Features at any moment… The team at Rentouch provides support and accepts feedback in a very efficient way. The software has this high quality that for us it's a must even when not doing distributed PI planning meetings. We like the use of the tool very well, it improves previous planning and insight inefficiencies in our development process.”
Jesús Marcos Martín, Sandra Moral Boadas
CSO Quality Management Support Group