Planning

Arranges user goals and activities into a story map that reveals the MVP cut and release slices.

Core question: How do users move from their starting point to their goal, and which smallest coherent deliveries support them?

• 2-4 h
• 4-10

Thinks through failure in advance to surface risks, countermeasures, and critical assumptions early.

Core question: Which plausible reasons could make this initiative fail at the assumed point, and how will we detect or reduce them?

• 20–45 min
• Small cross-functional group

Converts goals into actors, behavior changes, and delivery options, showing which steps have leverage.

Core question: Why does the goal matter, who can influence it, how should behavior change and what could support it?

• 45-90 min
• 3-8

Develops scenarios around critical uncertainties and tests which options stay robust even under change.

Core question: Which choices remain useful across plausible futures, and what signals should trigger adaptation?

• 0.5-2 Tage
• 4-12

Compares target and actual state, exposes gaps, and derives prioritized measures with clear risks.

Core question: Which evidence-based gap blocks the target, and what action could close it measurably?

• 1-3 h
• 2-8

Formulates goals precisely enough that measure, relevance, and deadline together form a clear basis for steering.

Core question: What concrete result should whom achieve by when under realistic conditions, and how will we measure it?

• 15-30 min
• 1-8

Defines audiences, channels, frequencies, and owners so relevant information reliably gets through.

Core question: Who needs which information when, from whom and through which feedback channel?

• 45-90 min
• 2-6

Plans the day through tasks, effort, buffer, and control so priorities stay realistically checkable.

Core question: Which tasks fit into today’s available time including realistic buffers?

• 10-20 min daily
• 1

Sorts inputs, projects, and next actions into a reliable system for weekly decisions.

Core question: What next action is available now while all other commitments remain reliably recorded?

• 1-2 h Setup, laufend
• 1

Reserves fixed calendar blocks for tasks and buffer and makes available capacity easier to steer.

Core question: When will I work on which outcome within my actual capacity?

• 15-30 min Planung, laufend
• 1

Collects open items, checks calendar and projects, and sets a clear focus for the coming week.

Core question: Is my complete commitment system clear, current, and complete enough to trust for the coming week?

• 30-60 min
• 1

Makes hard and soft boundaries visible and turns them into decision rules and option impact notes.

Core question: Which limit currently binds the system goal, which apparent limits are rules or assumptions, and what does a controlled relief test show?

• 30-90 min
• 2-8

Moves group input, selection, and decision toward a concrete result through "collect stakeholders individually and by group", "explain power and interest", and "derive a strategy for each quadrant".

Core question: Who can affect the specific outcome, who is affected by it, and what form of engagement is appropriate?

• 30-60 min
• 2-8

Connects goals, ideas, step projects, and tasks so product planning stays outcome-oriented and adaptive.

Core question: Which small step-projects learn fastest which ideas move a measurable goal?

• Wochen bis Monate je Goal
• 3-10

Structures product work around shaped pitches, bets, fixed cycles, hill charts, and scope hammering.

Core question: Is the problem important and the shaped solution deliverable within the appetite as a responsible bet?

• 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down
• 2-4 pro Pitch