Dependable Mid-range Agility Planning
Generate and maintain highly predictable mid-range plans that leaders and teams can depend on
Workshop description
In high-performing organizations, a common challenge is ensuring teams at all levels are aligned, focused, and can execute on the most valuable priorities. This requires clear articulation of goals and the ability to manage complex dependencies and pivot to changing requirements.
Without the right skills, handling cross-team dependencies, capacity management, and aligning with key objectives can be overwhelming. This often leads to inefficiency and misalignment, hindering the organization's progress and adaptability.
This workshop is designed to address these challenges. You will learn specific techniques for mid-range agile planning, covering bi-monthly, quarterly, or rolling 3-month schedules. Gain expertise in managing dependencies, adjusting to changing plans, and aligning with objectives. Equip yourself with the tools to drive your team's focus and alignment, ensuring your organization's continuous growth and success.
Who should attend
- Product Owners / Product Managers
- Program Managers
- Scrum Masters
- People Leaders / Managers of the team
- Any other roles that play a key role in your planning
What questions we will answer
- How does mid-range planning fit in the agile altitudes?
- How can we seamlessly align agility planning with our business objectives?
- How can we integrate measurement and metrics into our planning?
- How do we prepare and share our agility plans for leaders and teams?
- How can we painlessly pivot our plans based on key learnings?
Workshop details
Planning levels and phases
Overview of the key altitudes and phases of effective agility planning
Prepare to plan
Learn how to prepare high quality inputs to your planning that are aligned and connected to your business priorities
Execute an amazing planning event
Learn what an optimized planning event can look and feel like with clear roles, responsibilities, and deliverables
Build in Metrics and Measurement
We will look at how to measure the success of our planning through lenses of effectiveness and efficiency
Review and embrace changing plans
Learn how to put painless review and update procedures in place to embrace change in your plans
Still have questions?
Check out the FAQs.
This workshop will cover planning elements from a variety of Agile frameworks including sprint planning, backlog refinement, product increment planning and more. Please note that the focus of this workshop is not to repeat the standard talking points but to demonstrate and practice what an accelerated and integrated form of planning can look like.
For the best results we recommend that teams that wish to plan effectively together all have representation at the workshop.