The snow-route team sits idle in the Innovation and Planning iteration because nobody facilitated innovation or learning. What should the Scrum Master / Team Coach coach?
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Short Explanation
Idle snow-route IP is a plow garage with the lights on and no work order. IP is not a vacation and not a junk drawer of other teams' leftovers. Put innovation, learning, and I&A prep on a real IP backlog.
Full Explanation
IP is structured time for innovation, continuing education, Inspect and Adapt, planning prep, and buffer—not unstructured idle time. The Scrum Master / Team Coach facilitates a purposeful IP backlog so the snow-route team knows what learning and improvement will happen. Vacation-by-default, borrowing other teams' overflow, and ad-hoc tasks without a shared purpose waste the iteration. Facilitation is what turns IP from empty calendar into ART performance fuel.