Open Discussion on Project Planning Planning in an Agile Environment Key Tenets  Planning should focus strongly on the near term  Eliminate waste caused by planning for eventualities that never come

team was capable. Then, we did something unprecedented in formal government oversight—we had a discussion. The Star Chamber had the chance to give feedback, steer the program in different directions, summary of the program’s status (more on that later) and appear quarterly for a more detailed discussion.  At any time, they could call us in if they saw something alarming in the monthly update. With for, um, “vigorous discussion.”  Every quarter, I would do something I called a release cycle review , and then we would go back to the Star Chamber for an update discussion. How to gauge success: