team planning

reduce uncertainty, increase shared understanding and cultivate improvements

The importance of context is paramount. The team planning tools are purposefully designed to complement your type of team (Product, Mission, Operations), unlike traditional methodologies that assume that one size fits all. Our team planning tools reduce uncertainty, enhance progress transparency, and increase your team's ability to adjust to changing market conditions.

product team planning

Defined cadence of planning event ( short cycle )
Defined sync and async activities required
Refined and prioritised product backlog and roadmap
Backlog that is decomposed into incremental slices of value
Defined capacity and plan for the delivery timebox
Identified risks to success

mission team planning

Defined cadence of planning event ( short cycle )
Defined sync and async activities required
Comprehended and committed objectives
Prioritised work according to delay cost
Backlog that is decomposed and sequenced from prioritisation
Identified risks to success

operations team planning

Defined cadence of triage event ( short cycle )
Defined sync and async activities required
Defined cadence of triage event ( short cycle
All sources of work captured and visible
Work selection based on Impact/Severity, customer SLAs and capacity
Identified risks to success

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The remote:af Team Planning tools are designed to take into account the context of each of the team types (Product, Mission, Operations). They do this by ensuring shorter feedback cycles, defining what can be done asynchronously whilst enabling the minimisation of the number of planning meetings and the time between them. All of this is necessary for remote teams to advance without the mental stress and endless, productivity-eroding online meeting cycles.

To maintain these short feedback loops, we don’t spend more than two hours on team planning per week. Planning is contextual to the team types; for example

Product teams plan in small cycles so that they can remain adaptive to change while also providing external stakeholders with certainty.
Mission teams are outcome focussed, they don’t ‘plan’ their work per se, they sequence it according to cost of delay and then execute.
Operations teams are demand responsive rather than plan-driven and use flow based planning such as replenishment activities.

All team planning is done to capacity. Using the data captured from previous cycles enables the team to make informed decisions on the amount of work they can complete in the upcoming timebox. Metrics used are those that are defined in the context of each of the team archetypes - at remote:af we believe not all metrics are equal.

what makes a tool?

context-sensitive

There's no one-size-fits-all approach. Our tools are crafted to give you and your team the steps a world-class consultant would use.

complimentary

The tools aren't just individual solutions - they work together to create a dynamic and impactful system that drive material business outcomes.

modular

Each tool is like a buffet of delicious business solutions - pick and choose only the options that are right for you. Plus, you can always come back for seconds.

industry adaptable

We test everything across different industries to ensure that businesses of all kinds can understand and use the tools.

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