Description
A publication in the Continuous Everything series. Continuous Planning is an approach to get a grip on changes that are made in the information provision in order to realize the outcome improvement of the business processes and thus achieve the business goals. The approach is aimed at multiple levels, whereby an Agile planning technique is provided for each level that refines the higher-level planning. In this way, planning can be made at a strategic, tactical, and operational level and in an Agile manner that creates as little overhead as possible and as much value as possible. This book is a publication in the Continuous Everything series. The content consists of a discussion of planning techniques such as the balanced scorecard, enterprise architecture, product vision, roadmap, epic one pager, product backlog management, release planning and sprint planning. It also indicates how these techniques are related to each other. In addition, this book indicates how to set up Continuous Planning in your organisation based on the change manager paradigm and architecture principles and models. With this integral Agile approach to planning, you have a powerful tool at your disposal to systematically approach your organisation's strategy and thereby realize your business goals.
Drs. Ing. B. de Best RI has been active in ICT since 1985. He worked primarily with the top 100 of Dutch business and government organizations. He has acquired experience in different roles within all aspects of system development, including operations for 12 years. After that, he focused on the subject of service management. Currently, as a consultant, he is active in all aspects of the knowledge management cycle of service management, such as training ICT managers and service managers, advising service management organisations, improving service management processes and outsourcing (parts of) service management organisations. He graduated at both the HTS and University level in the management field.