Map teams, iterations, features and cross-team dependencies for your next program increment. Unlike a whiteboard template, this board warns you live when a dependency points backwards or a team is planned over capacity. Free, no sign-up — everything runs in your browser.
The same program board you'd build on a wall — except it does the math your sticky notes can't.
Add a row per team and give each one an honest points-per-iteration capacity — after support rotations, holidays, and the specialist who's half-lent elsewhere. Pick how many iterations your PI runs; the IP iteration is kept as a buffer.
Add feature cards to team × iteration cells with a point estimate, then link the cards that depend on each other. Capacity bars fill as you plan, and any dependency that points backwards in time turns red immediately.
Drag cards between iterations until the warnings go green — that's your PI plan, agreed before the increment starts. Save it to Axioplan and it opens as a live Gantt with swimlanes, dates and every dependency intact.
Miro, Mural and FigJam templates give you the picture of a program board. They don't give you the two checks the board exists for — dependency order and team capacity. Those live in the math, not the drawing. Our guide to what PI planning is covers the full event; this tool covers the part where plans succeed or fail.
The most expensive PI planning failure is a feature scheduled before the thing it depends on — usually discovered mid-increment as a surprise blocker. On a sticky-note board that's an invisible mistake; here the string turns red the moment it happens.
SAFe's own guidance says never plan to 100% capacity. A template can't enforce that; this board shows a load bar per team per iteration that goes amber at 80% and red when a team is over-planned, so the conversation happens in the room.
Whiteboard program boards go stale by week two because updating string is manual labor. Save this board to Axioplan and it becomes a live Gantt — when a feature slips an iteration, the dependencies and dates move with it.
Common questions about the PI planning board and program boards in general.