Pain-Free Quarterly Planning for Product & Engineering Teams

Quarterly planning shouldn’t be like a visit to the dentist! Learn from the DigitalOcean Marketplace team about how they’re able to align and excite the team around goal setting with an easy-to-follow process they’ll teach you, live.

What You’ll Learn

• Tools you need to engage and align your entire team in your quarterly goal-setting and planning process, instead of it just being a “managers” or “product” thing.
• Specific steps that take you from brainstorming to decision making and final goal selection, in less than two weeks.

This Talk is Designed For

• Product managers
• Engineering managers
• Anyone leading the product function, especially startup founders

Resources

• Slides
• Setting your vision using a vision-based framework
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
• Miro, a whiteboarding tool
• Project Poster Template and Examples, via Atlassian Team Playbook
• Roles and Responsibilities “Play”, via Atlassian Team Playbook
• Atlassian Team Playbook

Antonio Rosales (@a_webtone) and John Gannon (@johnmgannon) have worked together on the DigitalOcean Marketplace as an Engineering Manager/Product Manager tandem from inception through its scale-up beyond 150+ open source and commercial apps.