The presentation outlines strategies for effective planning and execution in agile management, highlighting the importance of eliminating planning waste and aligning initiatives with company strategies. It discusses structuring product investments, estimating features, and executing roadmap reviews while emphasizing collaborative efforts among engineering teams. Additionally, it showcases future planning methodologies and encourages an agile transformation for improved outcomes.

1. Create Great Plans
While Eliminating Planning Waste
Steve Demchuk
CA Technologies
Agile Management
Agile Management
@stevedemchuk
#CAWorld

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How We Go From Strategy to Execution
True North
Unleash Customer
Potential
Company Strategy 1
Company Strategy 2
Product Strategy 2
Product Strategy 1
Product Strategy 4
Product Strategy 3
Initiative 1
Initiative 2
Initiative 3
Initiative 4
Initiative 5
Initiative 6
Initiative 7
Initiative 8
Initiative 9
Initiative 10
Company Strategy 3
TRUE NORTH MOTHER STRATEGIES PRODUCT STRATEGIES PRODUCT INITIATIVES

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Quarterly Product Investments
INITIATIVES
Initiative 1 40%
Initiative 2 10%
Initiative 3 10%
Architecture 25%
Customer Voice 15%

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Initiatives Into Features With Allocations and Estimates
INITIATIVE 1 INITIATIVE 2 INITIATIVE 3 ARCHITECTURE CUSTOMER VOICE
Link to PI (Feature
Points Allocated)
Link to PI (Points) Link to PI (Points) Link to PI (Points) Link to PI (Points)
 Feature 1 (Feature
Point Estimate)
 Feature 2 (Estimate)
 Feature 1 (Feature
Point Estimate)
 Feature 2 (Estimate
 Feature 1 (Feature
Point Estimate)
 Feature 2 (Estimate)
 ...
 Feature 1 (Feature
Point Estimate)
 Feature 2 (Estimate)
 ...
 Feature 1 (Feature
Point Estimate)
 Feature 2 (Estimate)
 ...

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3 Next Quarter High Level Pass- 9 weeks
4 Initiatives Broken Down Into Features to Present to Sizing Team- 8 weeks
5 Features Estimates Due—Roadmap Review With Leadership- 7 weeks
6 The Why Kickoff With All of Engineering- 6 weeks
7 Features to Teams—Feature Estimates Finalized- 5 weeks
9 Story Breakdowns Begin/UX Mockups for Stories- 3 weeks
- 2 Weeks 10
Roadmap Plan Third Draft—User Story estimates with
Iterations/Quarterly R&D Demo
12 Big Room Planning
Hackathon Demo/Quarterly R&D RetrospectiveWeek Of 11

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Next Quarter High Level Pass- 9 weeks
Initiatives Broken Down Into Features to Present to Sizing Team- 8 weeks
Features Estimates Due—Roadmap Review with Leadership- 7 weeks
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Portfolio Items

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Release Planning

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6 The Why Kickoff With All of Engineering- 6 weeks

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5 Features to Team—Feature Estimates Finalized- 5 weeks

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Capacity Planning

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Cutlines

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9 Story Breakdowns Begin/UX Mockups for Stories- 3 weeks

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Team Planning

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GO
Big Room
Planning Event
Delivery Group
Steering
Inspect and
Adapt Session

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12 Big Room Planning
Capacity Planning—High Level Plan and Team
Readouts (Capacity/Work/Risks /Dependencies)
Team Planning—Story Level/Iteration Level Plan
Release Tracking—Visualize the Detailed Plan With
Dependencies
Release Tracking—In Quarter Status and Steering

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No More Stickies ... No More Strings …No More Spreadsheets ...
12 Big Room Planning

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GO
Big Room
Planning Event
Delivery Group
Steering
Inspect and
Adapt Session

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Delivery Group Steering
At-a-Glance Release Status and Steering

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Your Partner in Enterprise Scale Agile
Transformation
Consulting
Scalable Enterprise
Platform
Real Business Outcomes

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Q & A

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