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Planning and Execution Mode

In lean-agile product development, Plans are dynamic. They adapt to support changes in business priorities and feedback loops. Plan vs. Execution Mode is essential for steering and governing the PI to effectively deliver outcomes vs. output.

Based on your context, you most likely would like to see different information on both the Sticky Notes and the Boards. That's why we introduced two different modes: Planning and Execution.

First, the difference between Plan vs. Execution Mode

The mode in which you're looking on a board does have an impact on two areas

  • Attributes shown on a Sticky Note

  • Progress and current date visualized on Boards

Attributes on a Sticky Note

While in the Plan Mode you're interested in estimations, Story Points on User Stories and WSJF-value on Features, you're interested in the Status of your work items and their progress during Execution.


Progress and current date visualized on Boards


Execution Mode: Team Boards

In the Execution Mode you can see the current date, visualized as dashed blue line in the corresponding iteration area. Plus you see an Iteration Progress Bar at the top of every Iteration header.

Tip: Click the Progress Bar to get a granular status breakdown of all the work items.

Execution Mode: ART Planning Board

In the Execution Mode you can see:

  • The current date, visualized as dashed blue line in the corresponding iteration

  • Overall Team progress for the whole PI

  • Overall Iteration progress for the whole ART


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Execution Mode: Solution Planning Board

  • The current date, visualized as dashed blue line in the corresponding iteration

  • Current progress on Solution Backlog Work Items (such as Capabilities or Epics)

  • Overall ART progress for the whole PI

  • Overall ST progress for an Iteration

Execution Mode: ART PI Objectives

  • Overall Progress for all the Team-level work items linked to the ART PI Objective

  • The status roll-up is calculated based on Team-level Work Items that are linked to Features or Team PI Objectives that are linked to the ART PI Objective.

Execution Mode on ART PI Objectives

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