Big Room Planning as a Service by Kaizania
Agile planning, often called “Big Room Planning,” is a cornerstone event for organizations implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). This cadence-based event occurs every 10-12 weeks and is vital for aligning teams and ensuring they work towards a shared mission.
Key benefits of Agile planning include:
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What Kaizania Offers
Kaizania’s PI/Big Room Planning service is structured into four stages, adjustable to the program’s needs.
- Strategy Alignment: Ensuring roles and responsibilities are clear at both program and team levels.
- Business Alignment: Clarifying business priorities and their articulation.
- Team Formation: Ensuring teams are formed with clear roles, including Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
- Baseline Understanding: Surveying teams to gauge Agile maturity and mindset.
- Planning Preparation: Creating checklists for physical or remote planning.
- Content Understanding: Ensuring clarity from product, business, and IT perspectives.
- Communication: Setting expectations and responsibilities for various stakeholders.
- Delivery visualisation: Program & team board set up (Miro)
- Agenda Implementation: Ensuring business priorities are translated into sprint and PI objectives.
- Milestone and Dependency Identification: Clarifying key milestones and dependencies.
- Risk Management: Identifying, discussing, and assigning program risks.
- Commitment: Securing team commitment through capacity planning and commitment voting.
- Coaching: Providing on-the-day coaching to achieve clear outputs.
- Feedback Collection: Gathering feedback on event execution and Agile maturity.
- Reporting: Providing a report with key insights, benchmarked against other programs.
Bespoke Solutions Tailored to Program Size
Kaizania offers four Agile planning service levels:
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Prerequisites for PI/Big Room Planning as a Service:
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