Extreme SAFe: Turning Up the Flow in PI Execution

Presentation at the SAFe Summit Denver 2022.

PI Planning is in the bag and the train has left the station, at last, you can relax. Or so you thought…. The first iteration is fairly quiet, the second seems smooth as well, and then it happens, without warning, you are over halfway through the PI and your train has derailed without any warning. How did this happen?! You held all the PI Execution events as described in the textbook but your train looks like it won't be delivering the cargo to the next station on time. What else could you have done?

What if you applied the Extreme Programming mantra to PI Execution, by taking proven good SAFe practices and then took them to the extreme or as we say turn up the good?

In this session, you will learn to:

• Recognize how the SAFe Principles can be applied to “turn up the flow” in SAFe PI Execution
• Adapt the batch size of SAFe PI Execution Events to improve flow
• Introduce new PI Execution patterns that enable greater flow