Assign Business Value To Your Program Increment Objectives

Dave A. Cornelius, DM. KnolShare . Practice the Clear is Kind principle when assigning Business Value to your business objectives. getty As the business landscape continues to shift, many organizations are involved in a digital transformation that is reshaping and evolving how a business operates. One popular business agility model used by Fortune 500, 100 and 50 companies is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), which shapes the business lean-agile value delivery ways of working. One SAFe practice that supports business owners (BOs) and value delivery teams’ alignment is the BO assignment of business value (BV) to program increment (PI) objectives during the PI planning event that occurs every 10 weeks. According to Scaled Agile, Inc., “ Assigning business value during PI planning provides an essential face-to-face dialogue between the team and their most important stakeholders, the Business Owners.” The business value assignment uses a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). The BV assignment is an opportunity for agile value delivery teams and BOs to better understand the business objectives and their value. Some BOs and other stakeholders have asked what the purpose of assigning BV to the PI objectives is. The answer to the question is often framed […]

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