Big room planning - a workaround that can be useful
October 3, 2016
I’ve just completed my first ever big room planning meeting (a type of exercise made famous by SAFe in their PI Planning). That was quite an excerises and I’m totally worn out. But also immensely impressed by the team and the amount of learning that took place in the room today.
It was quite noisy at times but after 8 hours we went home with our sights aligned and a much better feel for what we will do the upcoming period (5 weeks in our case).
Still I could not get one thought out of my head. It stuck there a few days back and won’t get unjammed:
This big room planning stuff is really an anti-pattern and should be eliminated
In this post I want to explain why and also tell you why I still think it was great.