Conclusion

Job drivers

Attitudes - personality traits that affect behavior and decision-making (e.g. social pressure, corporate culture, personality, expectations of others)
Background - long-term context that affects behavior and decision-making (e.g. geographic/cultural dynamics)
Circumstances - immediate or near-term factors that affect behavior and decision-making (e.g. environmental factors, work schedule, unexpected events)

Attitudes
- Sometimes teams feel pressured to get more work done than they have capacity for, so understanding capacity and laying out work across the planning period helps to prevent this
Background
- Teams that have been working together for several iterations/sprints and are on a regular cadence should have an established velocity/capacity that can be used for future planning periods
Circumstances
- Teams always need to look at the planning period ahead of them and adjust capacity accordingly (is there a holiday, time-off, etc. that could impact capacity)

Attitudes
- Teams are pressured to commit to work, so shifting from committing to work to committing to objectives can enable teams to feel they have more flexibility in what they deliver while still meeting the outcome
Background
- Sometimes, program leaders leverage the PI Planning event concept from SAFe to make quarterly commitments
- Sometimes, program leaders focus on defining measurable outcomes to “script” the demo they want to see at the end of the quarter, so that business value is visible (or deliverable)
Circumstances
- Understanding the outcomes that stakeholders are looking to accomplish early during planning can reduce wasted time planning non-value-add work

Attitudes
- No plan is perfect, so identifying and reviewing risks can help a program feel more comfortable committing to the objectives of a plan
Background
- Identifying risks may be something the organization has done for years, but establishing and following up with mitigations during planning may be a new concept
Circumstances
- Although not always possible, programs should attempt to have all risks either resolved or mitigated coming out of planning to improve confidence in the plan

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