Deliverable Planning

Create an actionable plan to achieve success toward an important deliverable, with a defined cadence to learn from progress and respond to changes in priorities or constraints

Driver

There are often a lot of steps between deciding to do something and accomplishing it – and sometimes many of the required steps are unclear or unfamiliar. Business transformation efforts can fit both of these elements, particularly around concepts, technologies, and processes that are brand new.

If you’ve found yourself with a worthy goal but without enough detail to get there, we can help.

Outcome

We’ll work with you to tailor the plan, taking into consideration your preferred timeframe and resource mix. We’ll flag risks and considerations to keep in mind along the way.

We want you to achieve your goal and can help increase your chances of success by defining a clear plan to get there!

Approach

We’ll take the artifacts you have in hand around the goal — hopefully, they include some details about where you are today, what you’re aiming to change/add, and your ultimate deliverable goal.

Depending on the granularity and type of information available, we’ll facilitate discussions to fill in gaps with the right stakeholders. And we’ll use our hard-won experience to include techniques and methods that have worked well in the past.

Here are some of our favorite planning techniques:

  • We like to break work into meaningful yet achievable phases — you’ll hear us say phrases like good/better/best or crawl/walk/run to get at the idea that we can take steps in the right direction without achieving everything we’re aiming for by the first milestone.

  • We also strongly prefer to provide more detail for the near-term portion of the plan and build in retrospectives and further detailed planning, so that we build in time and space for continuous improvement.

And we’ll likely advocate for success criteria and metrics upfront, or as early in the process as is feasible. Part of the continuous improvement effort will be assessing how we’re doing against our plan — and this will be a richer discussion if we have more metrics than schedule and budget defined.

Interested in learning more?