Agile teams have a culture of Agile wall or Scrum Board often containing team Kanbans with a Burn Down Chart and sometimes even a Lean Canvas and Personae. These Agile walls are completed with sticky notes helping developers or team members to quickly find information. For a long time, agilists had to document all the tasks performed in ALM tools (ADO, JIRA), which were often unadapted to the Agile methods used. These information radiators generally only concerned one team with few dependencies with the other teams.
In fact, PI Planning - an event for synchronizing and aligning Agile teams in the SAFe framework - was also called Big Room Planning. This name reflects the first step of the Agile world into a more conventional Obeya. The central elements gathered during the 2 days of PI Planning are thus kept in a common place serving as a synchronization network for the associated teams: an Agile Obeya.
With the emergence of more complex Agile programs coupled with the need to scale Agile, teams had to go even further into Visual Management. It was at this point that Obeyas began to inspire Agilists. But there was still a major flaw in this Agile Obeya: paper moves only with difficulty. This neuralgic network of decision and synchronization tends to disappear in part after the 2 days of PI planning. The digitization of these Agile Obeyas becomes necessary to keep the information. With these Agile Obeyas, agile teams can follow both trains and sprints defined in the PI planning. In addition to the PI plannings, SAFe boards are developed to go even further in the virtualization of Agile walls.