The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has a special event that is held for every Program Increment (5 sprints-ish). This is a large scale, collaborative event including everyone from the Agile Release Train (50 people plus). This workshop will be a highly interactive event where all participants will be involved in one of many teams collaborating together to plan a single Program Increment for a single product. The schedule will roughly contain: Overview of SAFe Program Increment Planning (Fictional) Business Context Product / Solution Vision Architecture Vision And Development Practices Planning Session 1 Draft Plan Review Planning Session 2 Final Plan Review Risk ROAMing Confidence Vote Retrospective

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NICK MCKENNA
SAFe Planning In Action
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• Reduce your time to market
• Motivate and guide your teams
• Improve the quality of your software
• Significantly increase your productivity
• Align your teams, stakeholders and executives
• Make planning fun and productive
• Transform the way you build your software
SAFe Planning Workshop
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• Training
• Coaching
• Consultancy
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• SAFe® in ten minutes
• Organise Teams, ScrumMasters and Product Owners
• Setup Team Environment
• Determine Planning Velocity
• Two sessions
• Break features into stories
• Estimate stories
• Allocate stories to sprints
• Highlight risks
• Update Program Board
Today’s Schedule
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SAFe In 10
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• Alignment
• Collaboration
• Commitment
• Everyone on the ART Attends
• 2 Day Planning Event
• Held Every 8 – 10 Weeks
• Release Train Engineer Runs The Event
• Hold Up Your Hand To Address The Room
Program Increment Planning
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Thank You
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