BAMBX - Mark Richards: New SAFe City PI Planning Simulation

## SAFe City Simulation

Economic prioritization with Cost of Delay and Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is an incredibly powerful way to maximize the value being created by your ARTs. Sadly, many organizations either don't try it because the maths sounds too complicated or use it in a way that fails to yield the full power.
This simulation was first developed in 2013 to provide an engaging, experiential approach to teach leaders the power of WSJF and create the confidence to apply it to their strategic backlogs.

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### SAFe City has been played thousands of times. It's an ideal launchpad for introducing executives to WSJF and inspiring commitment to formally implementing it.

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Set in a non-technical environment, it challenges participants to leverage WSJF to prioritize the establishment of a city. The first version was limited to collaboratively estimating the Cost of Delay for a series of Epics. Subsequent iterations introduced Feature Roadmapping and PI Planning modules, and in 2020 a digital version was created in response to COVID. See more at https://www.shapingagility.com/safe-city

About our speaker:

Mark Richards
is founding Creator at Shaping Agility. I help lean-agile leaders, product and portfolio practitioners, and change agents grow their impact:

What Mark says himself: Everyone wants to go home at night knowing they’ve made a difference.

I help Lean-Agile change agents build the knowledge of what’s possible, the insight to shape the attainable, the curiosity to discover the unexpected, and the engagement to generate momentum.

I discovered lean and agile during my twenty years as a developer and architect. The most important lesson it taught me was that I had more impact working with people than working with code, so I transitioned to coaching. My scaled agility journey began in 2011, and it inspired endless learning as I evolved from mastering team agility to supporting executives and senior leaders as they mastered enterprise agility.

Over the years, I've taught hundreds of courses, coached every role in the agile ecosystem, and coached many amazing leaders. The path from team agility to enterprise agility has taken me deep into the worlds of Lean, Product Management, Portfolio Management, and Business Strategy.

Throughout, I've never lost sight of my belief that you know good agile when you see a successful business with happy employees.

To achieve good, sustainable agile, the core knowledge and skills must be in the hands of the leaders and team members, not the consultants - and that's my mission!

About our hosts:

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Thoralf J Klatt serves as a Product Coach. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. Reach out for speakerships.