Planning Tips When You Don’t Understand Much
summary
Planning for high uncertainty by treating unknowns as first-class items: set a 6-month goal, define milestone steps toward it, and use 1–2 week sprint-level plans. Maintain an "unknowns list" like a hypothesis backlog and run frequent experiments for fast feedback; apply three rules—inspect and update often, limit concurrent plans, and keep planners focused on the people doing the work—to reduce surprises and enable quicker pivots.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Unknowns in planning
- 2:56Types of unknowns
- 4:43Planning assumptions
- 7:16Three-layer planning
- 9:44Unknowns in product dev
- 11:30Feedback and learning
- 14:00Continuous plan updates
- 16:32Team-centered planning
- 17:55Stakeholder alignment
- 18:37Summary
- 19:42Q&A
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