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?