Quarterly Planning Tips

back with a “5 minute Friday” audio edition (but on a Saturday!)

key concepts I cover in this snippet:

1. storytelling is critical to aligning the org

2. a product team should think in bets

3. metrics can make or break your plan

4. dependencies are a fact of life

5. a poor planner blames staffing

I’d love to hear from listeners about their planning tips - please chime in via comments👇. And if you enjoyed this post, please consider subscribing.

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further reading / references

• reminder that storytelling is a critical PM skill, and all about pitching your PoV

• and a great storytelling technique for product work is highlighting how prior releases combine with future bets to compound value for customers

• obligatory reminder that there are more types of bets than just feature work

• focusing on metrics can go sideways, so some thoughts on avoiding that

• if you use OKRs as part of your planning / alignment process, review these myths

• this episode of the Build podcast also highlight 7 Qs for better priortization

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childish drawing / interpretation