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How to Run an Effective Quarterly Planning Session for Empowered Teams

How to Run an Effective Quarterly Planning Session for Empowered Teams

Quarterly planning aligns Product Teams with Stream Teams through collaboration, not control. The Product Team shares their vision and strategy, while Stream Teams determine how to achieve it. This approach preserves team autonomy while ensuring everyone works toward common goals. Done well, quarterly planning enables product teams to focus on impact, navigate dependencies efficiently, and continuously learn. Done poorly, it can result in misalignment, overcommitting, or a lack of accountability.

Rory Madden
Rory Madden
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Slow Product Development? Dependencies are the Cause

Slow Product Development? Dependencies are the Cause

Brooks' Law highlights the problem of the exponential increase in communication between team members as team size grows. We need a similar concept for dependencies between projects as the number of parallel projects grows.

Rory Madden
Rory Madden