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Quarterly planning

Meaning in product management, with examples

nounCommon term

In product management, quarterly planning means: The process in which product and engineering teams decide every three months which goals and initiatives they will focus on in the next quarter.

In Turkish: çeyreklik planlama, üç aylık planlama

How it is used

Usually involves reviewing results, setting OKRs, estimating capacity and agreeing on dependencies. In large companies it can take several weeks. People also say Q3 planning, and work is planned for or pushed to next quarter.

Example sentences

  1. Quarterly planning starts next week, so please send your ideas and data by Friday.

  2. During quarterly planning we realized we had committed to twice our real capacity.

Common collocations

  • Q3 planning
  • planning cycle
  • capacity planning
  • quarterly planning session
  • OKRShort for objectives and key results: a goal-setting method in which a team sets an inspiring objective and two to five measurable results that show progress toward it.
  • roadmapA high-level plan that shows what a product team intends to work on over the coming months or quarters, and why, without detailing every task.
  • initiativeA large, planned piece of work aimed at a specific business goal, usually made up of several epics and often involving more than one team.
  • dependencyA piece of work that cannot start or finish until something else, often owned by another team or company, is done first.
  • prioritizeTo decide which work is most important and should be done first, and therefore which work will wait or will not be done at all.

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