Tool Mentor: Innovation/hackathon/spikes and Rational Team Concert

Synopsis

"SAFe provides for periodic innovation and planning iterations, which serve a variety of purposes. They provide an estimating buffer for meeting objectives, a dedicated time for inspect and adapt and PI Planning activities, a cadence-based opportunity for innovation, time for continuing education, time for working on the technical infrastructure and other impediments, and time for backlog refinement."

Details

See Meetings and Rational Team Concert.

Step Tool guidance
1. Discuss as a team what spikes / innovation ideas to explore

See Planning an Iteration with Rational Team Concert and treat spikes/innovation ideas as stories.

The work items can be used to record ideas and have collaborative discussions.

2. Team members go do work on the ideas

Assign or self-assign individuals.

In QuickPlanner, assign work by clicking the  icon.

3. Schedule one or more meetings to demo and discuss the results See Meetings and Rational Team Concert

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