By Linda Parker Gates
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Acquisition Support Program
The appeal of Agile or lightweight development methods has grown steadily in the software development community. Having spent a number of years investigating strategic planning approaches, I’ve recently been thinking about whether Agile principles can be—and should be—applied to strategic planning. This blog post examines the applicability of Agile principles to strategic planning.
By Linda Parker Gates
Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Acquisition Support Program
Strategic planning is a process for defining an organization’s
approach for achieving its mission. Conducting successful strategic
planning is essential because it creates a foundation for executing
work, as well as setting the stage for enterprise architecture, process
improvement, risk management, portfolio management, and any other
enterprise-wide initiatives. Government organizations are operating in
an environment of almost near-constant change, however, which makes it
hard to conduct strategic planning efforts successfully. Moreover, when
organizations do tackle strategy, they often get bogged down reflecting
on the past or speculating on an uncertain future. This posting
describes recent work investigating and integrating techniques to
improve organizational strategic planning.
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