GuidePlanning
What is a forecast window?
A forecast window is the range of dates a release is expected to land within, stated together with the confidence behind that range.
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Knowledge topic
Planning
Planning knowledge Planning knowledge covers how an approved project becomes a plan someone can execute: discovery and the story map, the MVP boundary and what it excludes, capacity validated against the people you actually have, and a release plan with owned dependencies.
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What is a release plan?
A release plan sequences mapped workstreams into releases with owned dependencies and a stated planning horizon, as the output of Focus planning.
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What is capacity validation?
Capacity validation checks a plan against the people who actually exist, by name and availability, rather than headcount or FTEs on a spreadsheet.
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What is MVP prioritization?
MVP prioritization draws the line between what ships in the first release and what waits, based on which slice delivers the objective.
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What is scope elaboration?
Scope elaboration turns an approved one-line business case into a described solution with boundaries that estimates can be built on.
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What is team mapping?
Team mapping assigns each estimated workstream to a specific team with a named owner, so every piece of scope has one group accountable for it.
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Definitions
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Portfolio kanban
A portfolio kanban is one way to visualize the portfolio view: a board showing every initiative and the workflow state it sits in.
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