Abstract: Has your Engineering and Product organization grown exponentially through the pandemic, increasing the number of teams? Has this created more complexity in how you plan and execute? This session is targeted to help you create new ideas to bring back to your organization through storytelling and answering the following questions:

How can you align the organization around a compelling vision of where we are going with planning and execution? (The Pain)
What are the typical ingredients needed to ensure a strong foundation for success? (The Work/The Teams/Values)
What are some practices needed to get to the Big Room? (The Prioritization of Investments)
What happens in the Big Room? (Creating “Our” Plan/Appreciation/Quick Decisions)
What happens after the Big Room? (Steering the Plan)
Why this isn’t the destination but the starting point? (Creating Better Systems and Ways to Work)

There is not a one-size fits all solution to make any organization magically shed all its issues to reduce complexity. However, from our experiences running R&D organizations and advising many CTOs and CPOs, patterns have emerged on how to jump-start an organization in the right direction for them to create their more prominent destination and find the bottlenecks in the system. Join us as we tell stories of our past experiences and show what we have found to be successful in transforming how Product and Engineering organizations plan and execute.