Big Room 
Planning Workshop

Companies conduct Big Room Planning to plan the work for a program, by synchronising work and dependencies between all the teams involved. 

The planning can be done on an iteration by iteration cadence (as in Nexus, LeSS, Scrum of Scrums, etc.), once every 4-6 iterations
(as in Scaled Agile Framework/ SAFe), or once a quarter. 

A master plan of well coordinated activities of all the Agile Teams in a program.

Uncover the answers to the following questions:

• What is our Vision for the planning horizon? 
• How far have we come so far? 
• What are the architectural guidelines all the teams need to follow? 
• What is potentially in-scope for the planning horizon? What is out of scope?  
• Which stories, features, and epics will be delivered? By which teams? 
• What are the dependencies between the teams? 
• What is the capacity of each team? 
• What risks do we need to consider across the Program? 
• How much confidence do we have in our master plan? 
• How can we improve the planning process for the next Big Room Planning?

At the start of each new planning cycle

All the roles working within a Program 

4 hours to 2 full days (depending on frequency)