Starting with a Plan is Wrecking Your Product. Here’s How Winning Starts with Strategy.

Breaking free of planning’s iron grip.

Michael H. Goitein
Product Coalition
Published in
9 min readDec 13, 2023

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This woman and her team have put in the hard work and are ready to plan. Image via Midjourney.

“What’s the plan????”

I’ve been consulting in Product Discovery, Design, Delivery, and Management for over 20 years, and planning seems to be the only mode that gives people a sense of control.

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Aligning Strategy, Product & Lean/Agile Delivery for maximum value | Enterprise Agile, OKRs & Product Coach at @keybank | https://michaelgoitein.substack.com/