1 Turning Up the Magic in PI Planning 

2 Adrienne Wilson SAFe SPCT COO, Pretty Agile Em Campbell-Pretty SAFe Fellow + SPCT CEO, Pretty Agile 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks “We have found that we get a great deal of value from recognizing things that are going well and finding ways to increase the good from those things. We call this “turn up the good”. While it can be useful to identify problems and try to fix them, we find we get even more value from finding ways to increase the things that are going well.” —Woody Zuill 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks “There is no magic in SAFe . . . except maybe for PI Planning.” —Dean Leffingwell 

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@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Feature Disco Your Way to PI Planning 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks The Standard Two –Day PI Planning Agenda 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with a Time Shifted Agenda There are no second class citizens on an Agile Release Train. 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with Context Briefings aka Don’t be Boring! 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks https://www.slideshare.net/sharonbowman/six-trumps-six-learning-principles-that-trump-traditional-teaching 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with the Architecture Briefing You Can’t Read This But….. 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks How Do The Features Hang Together? Feature 1 Feature 2 Combined View 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Planning Context 19 © Scaled Agile, Inc. Planning requirements 20 © Scaled Agile, Inc. Team deliverables – detail 4 If a Story has a dependency, put a red sticky on it describing the dependency. Put a check mark through it once the dependency has been addressed. 4 If a risk is broader in nature, put it on the risk sheet 4 If needed, allocate a percentage of capacity for unplanned activities like maintenance and production support 4 The last Iteration will be used for Innovation and Planning (IP) 4 You should have a capacity but not a load on the IP Iteration, since it should not contain any user value stories 4 PI Objectives should be written as ‘SMART’ objectives 4 Objectives are assigned business value during the second team breakout 4 Stories supporting uncommitted objectives are included in the load calculation 4 Program risks are those that need to be escalated to the program level. They will be captured and ‘ROAMed’ after the final plan review. 4 Team risks are those under the team’s control. They won’t be presented. Iterations Capacity____ Load____ Iteration 1.5 Capacity____ Load____ X IP Iteration 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with a PI Planning Kanban 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Discovery 10% Innovation 10% Maintainance 10% Features 70% Allocate Capacity to Feature Definition (Disco) & Innovation EVERY Iteration Turn Up the Good with Capacity Allocation 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Ask all team members on the ART to write stickies for all the work they plan to do during the PI that is not related to the Program Backlog and add it to their teams’ planning board. Turn Up the Good by Making the Invisible (BAU) Work Visible 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with Team Breakouts 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Scrum Master Facilitation Plan “You’ll need to apply two days of planning for every day of a highly effective meeting. That means that to plan a highly collaborative two- hour meeting, you should set aside four hours of planning time.” —Jean Tabaka 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with the Program Board & Dependency Cards 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with Scrum of Scrums 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turn Up the Good with the Draft Plan Review 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turning Up the Good with Management Review Does anyone recall which team raised the issue with ….. I’m hungry I’m tired, is day ever going to end.. 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Dear Management Letters 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Prioritise and Time Box the Management Review Must Discuss Should Discuss Could Discuss 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turning Up the Good with Planning Adjustments 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turning Up the Good with ROAM Which team raised this risk? Whose handwriting is this? Can anyone read this? 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks RISKS Program Risks Team Risks Separate Team Risks and Standardise the Format 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Continuously ROAM 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Have the Leaders Commit to the ROAM Outcomes 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turning Up the Good with the Confidence Vote 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks CHANGE THE ORDER, FROM BOs FIRST 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks ….TO BUSINESS OWNERS LAST 

@AgileCanuck @PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks Turning Up the Good with the PI Planning Retrospective “We did not set out to invent a new way to work, or to extend the idea of pair programming. We simply noticed something that was working well for us and expanded on it..” —Woody Zuill 

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Em Campbell-Pretty CEO & SAFe Fellow @PrettyAgile linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/ [email protected] Adrienne Wilson VP of Operations & SPCT @AgileCanuck linkedin.com/in/adriennelwilson [email protected] 

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