Best Practices Around Planning and Preparing for Big Room Planning

Program Increments (PI) provide a structured rhythm for planning, executing, and reviewing work at a larger scale, enabling organizations to achieve faster time-to-market, improved alignment, and increased agility in delivering value to their customers.

Episode 1 of this webinar series, Todd Galloway, Rally Release Train Engineer and Matt Gorbsky, Rally Product, will unveil the details for best practices when preparing for PI, specific to software development and tips and tricks for using Rally in your process.
You will learn:
How to get started
Overview of Rally's 9 week cadence leading up to PI
Who’s involved and reporting structures for best results
Most used views in Rally to ensure planning is on track: Capacity Planning, PI Objectives and Goals, Risks
Understand how this folds into value stream management and how we develop a larger plan for the year and break down big projects into bite-sized tasks for each quarter
How we determine prioritization on the initiatives and deliver as one

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What does it take to run a great Big Room Planning / Program Increment (PI) event? You can’t have people just show up and expect the outcome to end successfully. There’s work to be done weeks before. And when that pre-work is managed, the PI becomes an organized event that holds credibility with leadership and your teams globally. What does it take to have a smooth PI? Get an insiders look into Rally’s 9 weeks leading up to its program increment.

In episode 2 of this webinar series, Todd Galloway, Rally Release Train Engineer and Matt Gorbsky, Rally Product, will go over the cadence and expectations for each of the 9 weeks leading up to PI. They will cover the charts and data you want to use in Rally that can help teams have the best outcomes.
This includes data and charts related to:
OKRs: Defined and Reviewed
Objective and Roadmap Reviews
Prioritization of high level features
Capacity identified and planned and preliminary feature prioritization
Features to teams
Story breakdowns, dependency and rotation discussions
PI Deliverables
Incorporating a hackathon

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Running Big Room Planning (also referred to as Program Increment - PI) meetings can present challenges as it requires successfully accomplishing two essential goals: 1. Achieving clear outcomes that instill confidence in teams and stakeholders about the work ahead and 2. ensuring active engagement from the audience.
Join us for Episode 3 of our 3-part webinar series on September 26 at 1 PM ET.
In this session, we’ll delve into best practices for running big room planning and the steps to get everyone on the same page prior to the big day. Hear from Todd Galloway, Rally’s Release Train Engineer and Matt Gorbsky, Rally Product, on how they work together, leveraging Rally analytics, to achieve the best outcomes and get everyone aligned.
Don't miss out on this insightful event! You will learn:
Rally analytics for capacity planning
Tracking planning to OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
Who’s involved and how BRP is structured to get the best results, even if teams are global
How planning folds into value stream management to facilitate the development of a comprehensive annual plan

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