How to run a quarterly planning session
A quarter is long enough to finish something and short enough to stay concrete. Pick three outcomes and be explicit about what stops.
What matters here
- Review the last quarter against what you planned
- Decide three outcomes for the next one
- Name what you will stop doing
- Break each outcome into a first month of work
- Book a mid-quarter check
The honest review
Compare what you planned with what happened, without justifying the gap. The pattern matters more than the score, and it usually shows that too much was committed rather than too little achieved.
Three outcomes
A quarter is long enough to finish something meaningful and short enough to stay concrete. Three outcomes is enough to matter and few enough to remember without opening a document.
Stopping things
The decision people skip. Every new outcome needs capacity, and capacity comes from stopping something. Write the stops down as explicitly as the starts.
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