Agile Strategy Planning

Projects and product development efforts ideally start with a vision associated with a business need or direction. This vision is then typically framed in context of a strategy and associated goals and objectives during a management team planning session. Strategy is the creation of a unique and valuable position, involving a different set of activities and it involves making choices throughout the value chain that are interdependent.

Agile strategy can be represented in a strategy curve (S-curve). It depicts how a product, service, technology or business progresses and evolves over time. S-curves can be viewed on an incremental level to map product evolutions and opportunities, or on a macro scale to describe the evolution of businesses and industries.On a product, service, or technology level, S-curves are usually connected to market adoption since the beginning of a curve relates to the birth of a new market opportunity, while the end of the curve represents the death, or obsolescence of the product, service, or technology in the market. Usually the end of one S-curve marks the transformation to a new S-curve the one that displaces it. You may review Agile Strategy Manifesto for more details.

Agile strategy planning is the top most layer of Agile Planning Onion . You can review the next planning layer by clicking on the following diagram. I recommend to watch this video to get a better understanding of linkage between all layers.

Agile Planning Onion Layers

1. Strategy
2. Portfolio
3. Release
4. Iteration
5. Daily
6. Continuous