Big Room Planning Agenda

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Big room planning agenda.

It can depict dependencies and assumptions but it s basically the plan for the quarter five two week sprints or so. It was quite noisy at times but after 8 hours we went home with our sights aligned and a much better feel for. Pi planning has a standard agenda that includes a presentation of business context and vision followed by team planning breakouts where the teams create their iteration plans and objectives for the upcoming program increment pi. I ve just completed my first ever big room planning meeting a type of exercise made famous by safe in their pi planning.

But also immensely impressed by the team and the amount of learning that took place in the room today. That was quite an excerises and i m totally worn out. In this blog i will dive deep into the week leading up to big room planning and the event itself. Below is a sample agenda for a big room planning event.

Big room planning is the secret sauce for effective agile planning and execution because it brings together all the people in an organization responsible for delivering software value to market from development and test to program management and the business to plan collaboratively. Big room planning is two days of planning together with all program and team members every quarter. Identification ownership of inter team dependencies. Distributed pi planning with safe bringing everyone on an agile release train art together for pi planning is a significant effort.

When you have multiple teams working on a project the big room planning technique comes in handy. Big room planning is real time collaborative release planning where you identify risks early untangle dependencies and effectively scope your work so you can prioritize and deliver value faster. The main deliverable in a safe big room planning session is a program board which is essentially a sprint by sprint breakout of the work for all of the teams in the program increment. When facilitated right it is possible and beneficial for 100 people or more to.

While both the agile manifesto and safe highlight the benefits of face to face planning often organizations will need to run these events across multiple locations. Remote teams are planning at the same time using video conferencing. The output from the big room planning event are the following. Planning is essential to agile but for larger projects it can become problematic.