Give your agile Teams and team of Agile teams some downtime...space. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! The same is true for your ART. Let them be creative and innovative -- away from the current work -- during this downtime. Remember, innovation is very important to any enterprise's future. In SAFe, this downtime is called the 'Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration. The last iteration before the next Program Increment (PI). Here is another beauty of this IP Iteration -- in addition to being a space for innovation: It is a built-in buffer (albeit small) between Program…
