Quarterly Planning NASA Style

<p>Our speakers, Dr. Ivan Zak and Ryan Leech discuss how methodologies from Traction, SAFe and Agile can be combined to help drive quarterly planning in veterinary consolidator businesses.</p><p><br></p><p>Topics discussed:</p><p>- Approach to strategic planning at VIS;</p><p>- Importance of quarterly planning meetings for interdepartmental collaboration;</p><p>- Identifying interdepartmental dependencies to align efforts towards goals and objectives;</p><p>- An online whiteboarding tool that helps organizing quarterly plans;</p><p>- Vertical cascading of goals down the four levels of the enterprise; </p><p>- Definition of Objectives &amp; Key Results (OKRs) and SAFe methodologies;</p><p>- Level-10 meetings to track progress;</p><p>- How to make all the departments aware of the initiatives kicked off in a particular quarter.</p>