Happy Hour & Dinner + Strategic and Tactical Roadmapping

Have you ever experienced miscommunication with leadership, feature sprawl, scope creep, impeded delivery, or missed goals and KPIs? What about a team roadmapping, PI planning, or Sprint Planning going so off the rails that you want to pull your hair out? Often, these are symptoms of a disconnect between strategic and tactical planning. Strategic and tactical planning are viewed in silos, but they are both means to the same end - delivering the product that your stakeholders want. You wouldn't climb a mountain without having both a map and the correct gear, right?

This session serves as a guide to help you navigate strategic and tactical planning and how to use them in tandem to build and implement a better roadmap. We provide a blueprint for creating a strong strategic foundation with mission-driven goals and objectives (plus a super easy formula for you to replicate). We will also help you understand how to make the transition from strategic to tactical planning, writing and grooming epics that align strategic and tactical imperatives and best practices for writing stories that define increments of value. You'll hear examples from a Product Manager and Agile Delivery Lead's experiences, plus have an opportunity to network with other product folks in the room.

Schedule:
6:30-7:00 Happy (half) Hour - Grab some food and drink, and meet people
7:00-8:00 Presentation
8-8:30 Q&A

About the Presenters:
Robert Brodell loves the strategic and tactical aspects of product management. He has a track record leading product management initiatives at Capital One and the federal government including:

• Establishing a unifying product vision and improving workflow management tools at the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control
• Designing and launching the US State Department’s new Defense Trade Controls Company Visit Program
• Enhancing Capital One’s ability to mitigate risk by developing in-house risk management products and processes
  In his current day job, Rob is enhancing Capital One’s ability to provide tooling to its population of thousands of engineers as a technical product manager responsible for delivering products that solve complex engineering problems like secrets and code management.

Arleta Brodell is an Agile Delivery Lead at Capital One. She believes that Agile is more than just standups and Sprints - it's about empowering people to own their work, love their work, and deliver it really well. Forging a customer-centered mindset and an environment where continuous improvement and learning are part of "business as usual" is what gets her up in the morning. As a Delivery Lead, she has experienced firsthand the importance of viewing strategy and tactics in tandem in product planning, as well as the hot mess planning sessions that ensue when you don't. She has experience:
-Introducing Product Increment (PI) Planning to programs in need of more structure around delivery planning
-Serving as a Scrum Master for business, data, and tech teams
-Facilitating team roadmapping sessions and mission / vision development
-Program managing a business area's cloud transformation
-Championing a culture "deep dive" effort that led to higher team morale