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Aligning India and Finland with Distributed PI Planning at Nordea Life…
Aligning India and Finland with Distributed PI Planning at Nordea Life
Context
11 teams
mostly component teams
one big system team
Launching their first PI
New to scaled agility
Distributed setting
All development teams off-shore in India
Management and product management as well as product owners of each team located on main site in Finland
few scrum masters temporarily in Finland -> their teams had
proxy scrum masters in India
First PI 6 weeks, 2 x 2-week iterations + Innovation and Planning iteration
Preparations
Training
Technical preparations
Simulations and rehearsals
Practices
Common sessions in auditorio
team rooms in both locations
Physical planning board
Jira and Confluence for sharing team plans
Physical program board in India
Scrum of Scrums over skype
Video connections between each team's rooms
Video connection between the auditorios
Sharing plans in draft and final plan reviews
Participants in auditorio setting
Presentations over video
Plan content visualized form Confluence pages
Program board visualized by taking photo of the physical board
Laminated SoS sheet for the scrum masters
Success factors
Rehearsal and simualation
Most of the participants knew what to do and what is going to happen - right from the start
Technical preparations, tests, and dry-runs
Sufficient coach & facilitation support
Lessons Learned
Dependency visualization and tool support
BO involvement and coaching
Briefings to connect the features into portfolio level initiatives
Audio and video technology cannot be tested too well
It's best to dry-run the actual sessions with presentations and microphones & cameras exactly how they are going to be run in the event.
Audio from group discussions works best with hand-held microphone as a token -> only one is speaking