From PI planning to Continuous planning

PI Planning is one of the core tenants of Scaled Agile. The entire Agile Release Train comes together to plan the next Program Increment.

Some teams are moving away from this practice and opting instead to perform continuous planning. So how does continuous planning work? How can teams transition to this state? What are the benefits and what are the challenges?

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1. 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/
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Your solution here Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 7
8. Our end state Copyright © 2021 Bushin Consulting, LLC. http://bushinconsulting.com 8
9. 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
10. 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?