From PI Planning to Continuous Planning An experience of a 15 teams’ program Shared by Vladimir Bushin Bushin Consulting, LLC vb@bushinconsulting.com http://bushinconsulting.com/contact/

The purpose ▪ It’s not a new approach, methodology or framework ▪ It’s not a critique of SAFe ▪ It’s a case study and adaptation experiment Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 2 Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/vbushin/from-pi-planning-to-continuous-planning

The context ▪ Medium size program, 15 teams, 100+ people ▪ 6 integrations to related products and payment network ▪ 9 (8) “lower” environments, 4 (2) Prod environments ▪ Went to Production after 5 PIs Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 3

Why do we re-plan? ▪ Shifts in vendor’s delivery schedule ▪ Disruptions in Sprints – Defects, Prod support ▪ Environments’ constraints – upgrades, branches Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 4

The idea – plan smaller! ▪ Find places for all the valuable PI planning events ▪ Satisfy the needs of all parties for planning and communication ▪ Take input from multiple sources of concern Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 5

Exercise time! (5 min) ▪ No, you don’t need to do push ups! ▪ Mural – check Zoom chat, click the link, join as a guest ▪ Try to solve the puzzle together (I will guide you) Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 6

Your solution here Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 7

Our end state Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 8

Takeaways 1. Plan more frequently to adapt to changes and avoid costly events 2. Focus on points of concerns – environments, priorities, dependencies, risks 3. Have a small picture – Sprint goal, and a big picture – a Roadmap 4. Communicate flexibly and sufficiently to satisfy different needs for information 5. Refine and estimate with representatives from multiple teams Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 9

Thank you! Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 10 Let’s stay in touch! vb@bushinconsulting.com Subscribe for my newsletter at: www.bushinconsulting.com/blog/ Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/vbushin/from-pi-planning-to-continuous-planning ▪ Questions?