Mastering Big Room Planning

Agile teams tend to have a good grip on how to deliver value inside of their own team – but challenges are often found when that is scaled beyond single teams.How do we manage dependencies between teams?How are we delivering large programmes and initiatives across teams?How well aligned are we in these teams to what the organisation needs strategically?This is where Big Room Planning comes in.Big Room Planning is an agile planning technique that is used to plan out delivery of large scale change over a specified time period – typically 3 months. This is a framework agnostic workshop – but does use techniques that feature prominently in SAFe.The workshop offered here is ideal for those either running or taking part in these planning processes. The workshop is set up as a place for attendees to share their experiences with Big Room Planning in a supportive, psychologically safe environment – so attendees should join with this expectation in mind.Attendees will leave with an understanding of the purpose behind these sessions – and techniques and approaches to increase the value from the sessions they are involved in.As part of this session, we will learn core concepts through discussion and exercises – before then putting these into practice in a simulated Big Room Planning experience.Following this, we will then reflect as a class with actionable takeaways to improve their individual Big Room Planning sessions.