"Single project stage plan"

der agile coach

We align ourselves.

Every three months, all stakeholders come together to agree on the goals for the next three months.

  • Each team identifies what its contribution is to achieving the goals.
  • Dependencies between the teams and other stakeholders are visualised.
  • Project risks are written down and limited as best as possible.
  • The contributions of the teams are distributed as stories over the 6 sprints of the stage to assess whether it can work.
  • And most importantly: people come together and build trust in each other.

der agile coach

Mediator between project plan and sprint board.

How do you structure a stage plan to keep track of the stage goals?

The following are suitable as top-level organisational criteria (also called EPICs)

  • High level functional architecture elements
  • High level technical architecture elements
  • Teams
  • Sub-projects

…or a mixture of these, if it helps.

Agile teams should provide a forecast of goal achievement from their sprints.
Conversely, the project plan should help structure the stage plan. We need a “linking element” that can be found in the world of the project plan and that of Agile product development: the EPICs.

DEEN