Agile Hive | SAFe Structure ART PI Planning Roadmaps

In mid-2019, we as toom IT started an agile transformation and we finally moved to the new organization in April 2020. While the transformation, I have taken responsibility for the roadmapping process, which should cover our cross-team (initially 13, now 15 teams) planning process. When we worked out the cross-team planning process, we decided to orientate on SAFe and the PI planning. While the simulations and the first real PI planning, we found out that JIRA is reaching its limit at various points and that we need a different or additional solution. After defining our requirements and creating a long and short list and an evaluation, we decided us for AgileHive. The right choice until today - we are very happy with Agile Hive. Base factors were to be able to visualize dependencies and to map hierarchies. The program (dependencies in ART / transparency about supplier services) and breakout board (planning the PI & coordination between teams) as well as the reports (quick overview of the most important SAFe metrics and the current status (“health”) of the PI) help us enormously in planning and managing the program increment. Really cool are many small useful features like the backlog visualization as well as the feature- and dependency-filter on the breakout-view, the automatically linking between stories and features by drag-and-drop, hints on program board & breakout overview (like “required issues are not in the current PI”) or the use of colors (for example for dependencies). All in all easy to implement, easy to use and very helpful.

Agile Hive is a super solution for SAFe Implementation. For me as an SPC, It helped see make my team understand various aspects of SAFe. I was very nervous during my first PI Planning but Agile-Hive was the reason that eventually everything fall in place. Highly recommended

A very good and seamlessly integrated app for Jira. Keep it up!

Because Agile Hive is a pure representation of SAFe in Jira, not only does it really come handy, but it as well highlights weaknesses and areas of improvement in your SAFe implementation. Easy to implement, easy to use, and very helpful. I had tried to get such thing implemented internally in Jira already in the past, and never came to something as good, always at a much higher cost... What else???

Finally a proper and affordable solution for SAFe with Jira. We have been looking forward to get this for a long time now and the first experience is amazing! Features like the Roadmap and the PI-Planning Boards for Teams and Program level are a real help for the team breakouts and the communication of the PMs with the stakeholders. But for me as a RTE the reports are especially interesting. They are able to provide me with almost all the info I need within one glance. Also the response to feedback, support and change requests on SeibertMedia site is great. Please keep up this spirit and deliver great products to us. Looking forward to the updates :)