What is your Feature's Definition of Ready (DoR)? Without DoR, you'll have features half-baked going into PI Planning... resulting in very vague work and hard to execute on... chances of failure is heightened.
Features and Benefits (FAB) is what we are all familiar with. With SAFe 5.0's customer centricity, this FAB is now BAF... Benefits and Features. Makes sense, right? Start using BAF!
With vision (the why, how and what) -- the big picture -- crafted and written down, next step is to craft and write down the features making up the vision. Vision, no matter how you see it, what all it comes down to is a set of features. Long time ago, someone had a vision of creating a computer based spreadsheet... born out of a need to not use huge multiple set of connected blackboards and white chalks and manually updating each cell when a variable change cascades through some -- if not all -- cells on the black board…