Sitemap - 2023 - Planned Attention

Humans are the plan-killers

The Ambition-Confidence matrix

Five types of teams and how to plan for them

What stakeholders ask for when they ask for roadmaps

The foreman anti-pattern

How to multitask when you need to

Structural dependencies: how to spot them and how to break them

Why you, yes you, should take control of the roadmap

Construction Zones: how to avoid developers getting in each other's way

How to handle capacity planning

Software development is rather predictable

Handling mini-projects inside your product

A company-wide multitasking machine

Sunk Cost Fallacy: Pulling the plug on a feature.

Planning for quality assurance

All-hands planning meetings are probably a waste of time

How to handle deadline-driven plans

Doing one thing at a time is the best way to build software

How to Approximate the Cost of Internal Software Projects

Holding the band together

When to involve developers in planning meetings?

Sprinting to catch your flight

How online distribution shaped modern-day software development

Living Documents and Clean Backlogs

Why Product and Engineering Keep Drifting Apart

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning

Turning chaotic backlogs into hierarchical plans.

Estimating large chunks of work

Who is the roadmap for?

Mastering Team Planning

Prioritization isn't enough

Why Engineering, not Product, should own the plan.

Stakeholder-ex-machina

How to disappoint stakeholders

Fixed-price projects

Why do-one-thing-at-a-time works.

Why stakeholders care about When

Breaking the Domino Effect

Avoiding the All-or-Nothing Trap

The future of our products is pretty predictable.

Three top-down constraints ...

Planning is for No people...

Why you can't stick to your plan...

Anatomy of a great Problem Description

Weasling, wishful thinking and why roadmaps need focus

Release management in the age of SaaS

Stakeholder mapping

Three cool metrics to augment velocity

Five kinds of dependencies

How to plan validation right