Presentation by Em Campbell-Pretty & Adrienne Wilson at the Global SAFe Summit 2021
Mob Programming thought leader, Woody Zuill, suggests that instead of always focusing on solving problems, we also take the time to notice the things that are going well and amplify them, thereby "turning up the good". When it comes to SAFe Dean Leffingwell perhaps said it best: "There is no magic in SAFe . . . except maybe for PI Planning." I suspect most of you agree that PI Planning is the magic in SAFe. There is nothing quite like the energy created by bringing a group of 100+ people together to build a collaborative plan over a couple of days every 10 to 12 weeks. So what would it mean to "turn up the good in PI Planning"? If we focused on what is good and what we want more of, would we get more magic?! For Em and Adrienne, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" In this session, they will take the "The Facilitator’s Guide to PI Planning" and illustrate how turning up the good can bring your PI Planning magic to the next level.
3. @AgileCanuck
@PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks
“We have found that we get a
great deal of value from
recognizing things that are going
well and finding ways to
increase the good from those
things. We call this “turn up the
good”. While it can be useful to
identify problems and try to fix
them, we find we get even more
value from finding ways to
increase the things that are
going well.”
—Woody Zuill
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@PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks
Ask all team
members on the ART
to write stickies for all
the work they plan to
do during the PI that
is not related to the
Program Backlog and
add it to their teams’
planning board.
Turn Up the Good by Making the Invisible (BAU) Work Visible
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@PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks
Scrum Master Facilitation Plan
“You’ll need to apply two
days of planning for
every day of a highly
effective meeting. That
means that to plan a
highly collaborative two-
hour meeting, you
should set aside four
hours of planning time.”
—Jean Tabaka
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@PrettyAgile #notrainwrecks
Turning Up the Good with the PI Planning Retrospective
“We did not set out to invent a new
way to work, or to extend the idea
of pair programming. We simply
noticed something that was
working well for us and expanded
on it..”
—Woody Zuill
36. Em Campbell-Pretty
CEO & SAFe Fellow
@PrettyAgile
linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/
em@prettyagile.com
Adrienne Wilson
VP of Operations & SPCT
@AgileCanuck
linkedin.com/in/adriennelwilson
adrienne@prettyagile.com