Setting agile teams up for success

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Are you struggling with bottlenecks and delays? Do dependencies across teams and projects create chaos and confusion?

In this webinar, Product Leader and Agile Coach Jaclyn Smith shares practical strategies for identifying and mastering dependencies.

You will learn how to enhance communication, visualization, and ownership of dependencies to boost the collaboration and productivity of your teams.

Agenda:

• Why it is essential to manage dependencies well
• Practical tips to get started; actionable advice for effective dependency management within your teams
• Managing dependencies across planning levels; from big room planning all the way to team sprints
• Real-life examples and lessons learned; gain insights from complex project environments

Set aside half an hour for valuable insights and practical techniques that help you manage dependencies and use them to your advantage.

When everything is “top priority”, nothing ships. Two weeks before planning, teams pull in different directions; work starts, but no one can name the one outcome you’ll deliver together.

If that sounds familiar, this session is for you.

In this on-demand session, Hayley Rodd (Easy Agile) and Andreas Wengenmayer (catworkx) show a practical way to align on outcomes, cut the noise, and keep delivery moving. You’ll see how to make priorities visible, surface dependencies early, and keep a single, living view of progress. We demo the flow in Jira with Easy Agile Programs, but the lessons apply to any tool you use today.

Why this matters now

• Goals live in slides, backlogs live elsewhere, and priorities change mid-cycle. Teams are busy, yet progress feels brittle.
• Dependencies show up late, reviews balloon into status theatre, and the roadmap quietly drifts from the original intent.
• Leaders ask for visibility; teams want fewer interruptions. Both are possible with a clearer shared view.

What you’ll walk away with

• A 5-step checklist to connect strategy to execution
• How to choose 3–5 objectives and prioritise with a simple business value scale
• How Release Train Engineers, Product Managers, Product Owners and Engineering Managers align on outcomes
• Mapping dependencies early and tracking progress in real time in Jira
• Using PI Objectives and a lightweight review rhythm to stay on course

Speakers

Hayley Rodd - Senior Partner Manager, Easy Agile
Helps customers and partners turn strategy into shipped work inside Jira.

Andreas Wengenmayer - Practice Lead, Enterprise Strategy Planning, catworkx
Advises enterprises on strategy, portfolio planning and delivery alignment.

Further Reading and Resources

• Free Goal-Clarity Canvas & Template
  An easy one-pager to turn vague goals into a clear outcome statement, success measures, and ownership. Includes guided prompts and a printable template you can use with any team.
• How We Simplified Our OKRs - and Got Better Strategy, Alignment, and Execution
  The inside story of how Easy Agile reduced OKR bloat, focused on outcomes, and improved cadence. Practical tips, examples, and pitfalls to avoid.
• The Ultimate Guide to PI Planning + Free Template
  A step-by-step guide to running effective increment/quarterly planning: roles, agenda, dependency mapping, and anti-patterns. Comes with a free downloadable template you can adapt to your context.

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Effective Sprint Planning relies as much on what happens before the Sprint Planning session as it does during it.

Who do you involve?

How do you scope or estimate what you intend to set out to achieve as a team?

How do you keep the discussion focussed?

And an increasingly important consideration, how do you run it remotely?

Teagan Harbridge, Head of Product at Easy Agile will walk you through some key ways to set your Sprint up for success and how you can use Easy Agile User Story Maps for streamlined and effective Sprint Planning.

Streamlined & effective Sprint Planning

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