Four families
PI planning tools come in four families. Jira plugins (Easy Agile, Agile Hive, BigPicture) keep planning inside Jira and price by every Jira user on the site. Dedicated planning servers (iObeya, PIPlanning.io) give a purpose-built room and integrate with the tracker. Whiteboards (Miro) give freedom and templates with no planning data model. Open source (Trainyard) gives the purpose-built room, the integrations and the choice of hosting it yourself.
Prices change and most vendors quote; this page compares what each does and what the price is counted by, not amounts.
Side by side
| Tool | Hosting | PI planning | ART and team boards | Beyond planning | Integration | Priced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trainyard | Self-hosted, open source; hosted; Jira app and Azure DevOps extension | Integrated: PI planning, team breakouts, PI objectives, confidence vote | ART and team boards, PI planning board with milestones and dependency strings, ROAM, WSJF, retrospectives | Portfolio Kanban, roadmaps, SAFe canvases, value stream identification and mapping, AI portfolio, dashboards | Jira and Azure DevOps, two ways; imports from iObeya, Miro, Mural, monday.com | Trainer or train; people in the room are free |
| iObeya | On premises or separate server | Integrated web interface | ART board, ROAM, WSJF, retrospectives | Portfolio and more | Full integration through API and iFrame | Room, with a minimum number of rooms |
| Easy Agile | Jira plugin | Within Jira | ART and team boards | None | Jira only | Every Jira user on the site |
| Agile Hive | Jira plugin | Within Jira | ART board, ROAM, WSJF, team execution | Portfolio Kanban, roadmap, reporting | Jira only | User, by quote |
| BigPicture | Jira plugin | Within Jira | ART board, ROAM, WSJF, team execution | Project planning and reporting, OKR and risk widgets | Jira only | Every Jira user on the site |
| PIPlanning.io | On premises or separate server | Dedicated tool | ART and ROAM boards | None | Jira | Team |
| Miro | Public cloud | Not integrated; templates | Limited ART board | None | None for planning data | Every member |
Questions to ask before choosing
- Who is in the room? If it is a whole train including business owners who are not Jira users, per-Jira-user pricing counts them too.
- Where must the plan end up? If features and dependencies have to flow back into Jira or Azure DevOps, a whiteboard means retyping.
- Can you host it? Regulated organisations often cannot put planning data in a vendor's cloud; on-premises or open source are the options.
- What else do you need? Portfolio Kanban, value streams and canvases, or just the board.
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