Deconstructing PI Planning: Episode 2
00:00:00 Intros and welcome
00:01:00 Discussing contextualization as a concept
00:07:50 Here there be dragons - risks of contextualization
00:19:38 Goals of PI Planning - Eric's elaboration
00:25:08 Discussion and implications of those goals
00:28:28 Implications of commitments and how to meet them
00:44:24 Avoiding zombie SAFe
01:02:48 Technical difficulties recovered, next week, and closing thoughts
Mark, Stephan, Yuval, and Eric gathered to discuss another level of decomposition of PI Planning. We started this week focused on exploring the nature of contextualization, that is the gap between PI Planning per SAFe documentation and PI Planning as it is practiced in the world and how to decide if those gaps are good.
We then spent the better part of an hour exploring the implications, value, and risks inherent in story decomposition, detailed planning, and how you can end up with overly brittle plans if you don't find the right balance. We closed with a discussion of the relative safety for teams in the different potential mechanisms for making space for changes to arise during the PI.
On the chat:
Eric Willeke ( / ericwilleke )
Mark Richards ( / amarkrichards )
Yuval Yeret ( / yuvalyeret )
Stephan Neck ( / neckflowsphere )