Many agile teams attempt to plan for an entire quarter at a time. Something changes—a better product opportunity, or a product development problem—and the quarter’s plan is not just at risk. That plan is now impossible. Instead of quarterly planning, consider continual planning. Continual planning allows a project or a program to use small deliverables to plan for the near future and rolling waves to replan often to deliver the most value.
18. Invite Change with Build-
Measure-Learn Loop
• Break ideas down into small chunks of
value
• Build one small chunk
• Create this minimum product
• How little can you do and still
validate a business hypothesis?
(MVP)
• How little can you do to learn?
(MVE)
• Measure the effects with data
• Learn from releasing that and integrate
the learning back into the ideas