| Trainyard | PIPlanning.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Self-hosted, open source; hosted; Jira app and Azure DevOps extension | On premises or separate server |
| PI planning | Integrated: PI planning, team breakouts, PI objectives, confidence vote | Dedicated tool |
| ART and team boards | ART and team boards, PI planning board with milestones and dependency strings, ROAM, WSJF, retrospectives | ART and ROAM boards |
| Beyond planning | Portfolio Kanban, roadmaps, SAFe canvases, value stream identification and mapping, AI portfolio, dashboards | None |
| Integration | Jira and Azure DevOps, two ways; imports from iObeya, Miro, Mural, monday.com | Jira |
| Priced by | Trainer or train; people in the room are free | Team |
When PIPlanning.io is the better pick
PIPlanning.io is the better pick when you want a dedicated PI planning board with little else around it and a per-team price.
When Trainyard is
- The room holds people who are not tracker users: business owners, customers, a class. Trainyard counts trainers or trains, so they cost nothing.
- The plan must flow back to Jira or Azure DevOps and come from it: features, stories, risks and dependencies sync two ways through an inspectable queue.
- You need more than the board: Portfolio Kanban, value stream identification and mapping, SAFe canvases, PI Outcome Planning, an AI-native portfolio, dashboards.
- You host your own tools, or want to be able to: one Docker Compose, Apache-2.0, every feature.
- You train: Leading SAFe, SPC, Advanced SPC, POPM and RTE class boards, and your own Miro class boards imported.
Moving boards over
Boards from iObeya, Miro, Mural, monday.com, Trello, CSV and JSON import as they are; Jira and Azure DevOps data syncs rather than imports.
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