Agile & Delivery playbook/Module 8 · Scaling

Day 77 / 100 · Scaling · Cross-team planning

Plan in the room.

Big-room planning puts every team together, physically or online, for a day of shared context, team planning and honest confidence checks.

Context first

Part 01

Leaders share the vision, priorities and constraints.

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Thirty minutes, not three hours.

Teams plan

Part 02

Breakouts where each team drafts its plan.

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With the people who'll do it.

One dependency wall

Part 03

Every dependency visible, linked team to team.

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Physical or on a whiteboard.

Confidence vote

Part 04

Every team rates its confidence in the plan, 1 to 5.

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Low scores get discussed.

Plan in the room. Vote on confidence.