The Agile Release Train (ART) is a long-lived team of Agile teams that incrementally develops, delivers, and often operates one or more solutions in a value stream, and here are all the events required to be conducted/attended at ART level.
| Events | What | Participants | Frequency | Duration | ||
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PI Planning |
Start of every PI, 2-day planning event for all Team Members |
Facilitator- RTE Participants-All teams |
Every 3 months |
2-3 days |
Activities: Product & architecture vision presentation along with preparation of Team backlog Outcomes: Planned team backlogs to be delivered in 3 months and PI objectives for each team |
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ART Sync
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Coach Sync |
Twice-weekly Program Level sync to focus on overall progress and impediments. |
Facilitator-RTE Participants-Team Coach/SM, POs (Optional) |
Twice-weekly (can happen everyday for new teams) |
30 mins |
Activities: Coaches sync up to review the KPIs and dependencies Outcome: Refined dependency tracker |
PO Sync |
Twice-weekly Program Level sync to focus on overall progress and impediments. |
Facilitator-RTE Participants-POs |
Twice-weekly |
30 mins |
Activities: Refine ART backlog, assess scope adjustment & progress towards meeting ART PI objective Outcome: Updated ART backlog |
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System Demo |
Every Iteration (if possible) Program Team demos the completed work to Business Owners & Leadership |
Facilitator- Team Coach Participants-Business, Agile Team |
End of the iteration |
0.5-1 hours |
Activities: Agile team provides working demo on Pre-prod environment for developed features Outcomes: Feedback points from Business representatives |
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Inspect & Adapt |
End of every PI show complete solution, review metrics and improvement areas |
Facilitator- RTE Participants-All teams |
End of the PI |
Half day |
Activities: Dicuss what went well and what can be improved Outcome: Improvement points to be adapted |
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Epic Refinement |
Throughout PI (typically from mid-PI), review and refine the Epic Backlog |
Facilitator-RTE Participants-POs, Business, Architect, UX lead |
Weekly Twice |
1 hours |
Activities: Re-align the Epic and Feature priorities and update the ART backlog accordingly Outcome: Updated Capabilities & ART backlogs |
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IP Iteration |
Occurs as the last iteration of every PI |
Facilitator- Team Coach Participants- All ART members |
Every PI |
2 weeks |
Activities: As described thoroughly in IP Iteration - Product Engineering Centre of Excellence - Confluence (atlassian.net) Outcome: Objectives for next PI and updated learning program |
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