I always found product planning went poorly because the bosses of the people making the plans would make heads roll if you couldn’t draw them 7 parallel red lines, 3 of them being perpendicular, and in green ink
They’d get a plan that made them happy in the moment, we’d inevitably go off the rails in a few weeks but in a politically satisfactory way. Mission accomplished would be declared and then we’d start all over again next quarter/year.
That is unless you are working under the SAFe framework in which case you cut out all that time wasted trying to execute on the impossible plan and just doing constant rolling, planning of planning
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I always found product planning went poorly because the bosses of the people making the plans would make heads roll if you couldn’t draw them 7 parallel red lines, 3 of them being perpendicular, and in green ink
They’d get a plan that made them happy in the moment, we’d inevitably go off the rails in a few weeks but in a politically satisfactory way. Mission accomplished would be declared and then we’d start all over again next quarter/year.
That is unless you are working under the SAFe framework in which case you cut out all that time wasted trying to execute on the impossible plan and just doing constant rolling, planning of planning