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How can one Scrum master and scheduling issuesMaster do two retrospectives during SAFe PI Planning?

As a scrum masterScrum Master for two teams within SAFe, I have the standard scheduling down pat -. I can attend all regular meetings etc. and the teams are running relatively smoothly.

But However, we are working in a scaled agile environment and there is one event that regularly makes me want to clone myself: PI Planning.
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In other words, the event when all scrumScrum teams that are developing a huge project physically come together to adjust their planning for the next two months. This includes a retrospective and a planning session. While the planning is doable (larger time window and lots of preparation), leading two teams through a common retrospective within the same time slot of thirty to sixty minutes is a challenge. Yes, the questions are the same for all 100+ participants, but we as scrum mastersScrum Masters are supposed to lead and encourage our team, make sure the time limits are kept etc.

In the past, I solved this by placing both teams physically next to each other, but found that the discussions of the two teams mutually distracted them and that I was running around like the proverbial "chicken with theits head cut off"off."

As the rule of thumb seems to be "Scrum masterMaster = 1/2 full-time job", I suppose there are many SMs out there with similar issues.

How can one person juggle two teams when sequential work is impossible?

Scrum master and scheduling issues

As a scrum master for two teams, I have the standard scheduling down pat - I can attend all regular meetings etc. and the teams are running relatively smoothly.

But we are working in a scaled agile environment and there is one event that regularly makes me want to clone myself: PI Planning.
In other words, the event when all scrum teams that are developing a huge project physically come together to adjust their planning for the next two months. This includes a retrospective and a planning session. While the planning is doable (larger time window and lots of preparation), leading two teams through a common retrospective within the same time slot of thirty to sixty minutes is a challenge. Yes, the questions are the same for all 100+ participants, but we as scrum masters are supposed to lead and encourage our team, make sure the time limits are kept etc.

In the past, I solved this by placing both teams physically next to each other, but found that the discussions of the two teams mutually distracted them and that I was running around like the proverbial "chicken with the head cut off".

As the rule of thumb seems to be "Scrum master = 1/2 full-time job", I suppose there are many SMs out there with similar issues.

How can one person juggle two teams when sequential work is impossible?

How can one Scrum Master do two retrospectives during SAFe PI Planning?

As a Scrum Master for two teams within SAFe, I have the standard scheduling down pat. I can attend all regular meetings and the teams are running relatively smoothly. However, we are working in a scaled agile environment and there is one event that regularly makes me want to clone myself: PI Planning.

In other words, the event when all Scrum teams that are developing a huge project physically come together to adjust their planning for the next two months. This includes a retrospective and a planning session. While the planning is doable (larger time window and lots of preparation), leading two teams through a common retrospective within the same time slot of thirty to sixty minutes is a challenge. Yes, the questions are the same for all 100+ participants, but we as Scrum Masters are supposed to lead and encourage our team, make sure the time limits are kept etc.

In the past, I solved this by placing both teams physically next to each other, but found that the discussions of the two teams mutually distracted them and that I was running around like the proverbial "chicken with its head cut off."

As the rule of thumb seems to be "Scrum Master = 1/2 full-time job", I suppose there are many SMs out there with similar issues.

How can one person juggle two teams when sequential work is impossible?

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Scrum master and scheduling issues

As a scrum master for two teams, I have the standard scheduling down pat - I can attend all regular meetings etc. and the teams are running relatively smoothly.

But we are working in a scaled agile environment and there is one event that regularly makes me want to clone myself: PI Planning.
In other words, the event when all scrum teams that are developing a huge project physically come together to adjust their planning for the next two months. This includes a retrospective and a planning session. While the planning is doable (larger time window and lots of preparation), leading two teams through a common retrospective within the same time slot of thirty to sixty minutes is a challenge. Yes, the questions are the same for all 100+ participants, but we as scrum masters are supposed to lead and encourage our team, make sure the time limits are kept etc.

In the past, I solved this by placing both teams physically next to each other, but found that the discussions of the two teams mutually distracted them and that I was running around like the proverbial "chicken with the head cut off".

As the rule of thumb seems to be "Scrum master = 1/2 full-time job", I suppose there are many SMs out there with similar issues.

How can one person juggle two teams when sequential work is impossible?