Let’s be honest: Program Increment (PI) Planning is the Super Bowl of the Agile world. It’s high-energy, high-stakes, and, let’s face it, a logistical mountain to climb. You’ve got the vision, the teams are aligned, and the Program Board is starting to look like a work of art.

But then comes the "Monday morning hangover."

While the strategy was inspiring, the implementation in Jira often feels like a return to the dark ages of manual data entry. If you’re running a large Agile Release Train (ART), you’re looking at creating dozens, maybe hundreds, of sprints across multiple team boards.

Doing that manually is the opposite of "Agile." It’s error-prone, soul-crushing work that usually falls on the shoulders of the very people who should be focusing on delivery.

At Divim, we’re big believers in the "Work Smarter, Not Harder" mantra. That’s why we built a way to turn that manual marathon into a single click.

The Bottleneck Nobody Talks About

In a typical SAFe environment, teams plan 5 to 6 sprints upfront for the entire PI. In a standard Jira setup, that means a Scrum Master or Release Train Engineer (RTE) has to navigate to every single board, click "Create Sprint," type in the name, set the dates, and repeat. Multiply that by 10, 15, or 20 teams, and you’ve just spent your entire Monday acting like a very expensive human macro.

There is a better way. Scaling Agile shouldn't mean scaling the amount of clicking you do. To maintain momentum after a big planning session, you need your tooling to move as fast as your ideas.

Enter Bulk Sprint Creation

Our Enterprise Sprint Automation : Bulk Create & Auto Start/End app was designed specifically for this "Realist" version of SAFe. We knew that enterprise teams needed a way to provision an entire quarter’s worth of work without the headache.

With the Bulk Sprint Creation feature, you can:

• Provision Dozens of Sprints at Once: Select all the boards in your ART and create the next 5-6 iterations in one go.
• Use Templated Naming: No more "Sprint 1", "Sprint 01", and "Team A – Sprint 1" inconsistencies. Use auto-numbering to keep everything clean and searchable.
• Respect the Calendar: The tool features a working-days calendar, so your sprint dates actually make sense (no more sprints starting on a Sunday by accident).

Automation: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Creating the sprints is just the beginning. Once the PI is in motion, the manual "Friday afternoon ritual" of closing one sprint and starting the next begins — along with chasing people to move their unfinished stories.

Our app handles the Auto Start/End and rollover. You set the schedule once, and Jira handles the rest. Active sprints close on time, unfinished work rolls over to the next sprint (or the backlog, your choice), and the next sprint starts immediately. It’s "hands-off" management at its finest.

Reliability for the Enterprise

When you're working at scale, outages aren't just annoying — they're expensive. That’s why we built this as a native Atlassian Forge app. What does that mean for you?

1. Security: Your data stays within the Atlassian cloud.
2. Compliance: It honors your existing data-residency regions.
3. Transparency: Every automated action generates a Sprint Report Card that you can share directly to Confluence or Slack. You’ll always know exactly what moved where and why.

Take Back Your Planning Cycle

Quarterly planning should be about strategy and synchronicity, not about manual configuration. By automating the "plumbing" of your Jira instance, you free your teams to focus on what actually matters: delivering value.

Whether you're looking for the best Agile tools for software teams or trying to scale your existing Jira setup, efficiency is the name of the game. Go deeper on running PI planning in Jira.

Head today to the Atlassian Marketplace and try our apps for free. Let’s make PI Planning a little less about the paperwork and a lot more about the progress.

About Divim Divim is dedicated to building simple, powerful Agile project management tools that help enterprise teams thrive in Jira. We focus on automation, clarity, and reliability so you can focus on the code.

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Rob Borges

Rob Borges spent the first half of his career hunting waste as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and wrangling portfolios as a PMI Portfolio Manager — until he realized the tidiest process on earth still can't out-plan an optimistic human. So he switched sides and became an Agile Coach. These days he helps Kanban, Scrum, and Agile-at-Scale teams trade gut-feel deadlines for flow data, turning "we'll probably ship sometime in Q3" into release dates leaders can actually take to the board. His rule of thumb: hope is not a forecast, but your throughput history usually is.

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