As the new year approaches, product managers are preparing to set their teams up for success. While quarterly planning is a well-known strategy, executing it effectively can be a challenge. This blog will explore how to maximize your quarterly planning process in the coming year, ensuring alignment, adaptability, and continuous improvement. We’ll also highlight how Craft.io, your go-to product management tool, can streamline your efforts and enhance collaboration across teams.

Although they correctly devote their energy to pursuing their company’s high-level objectives, effective Product Managers also keep an eye on how their teams are progressing, day by day, in completing the product-related tasks that will help the company reach its objectives. Here’s why that’s a smart strategy.

At Craft.io, our mission has always been to give product teams and leaders the tools they need to make the best-informed decisions for their products’ success. And as a product professional yourself, you know that one of the most valuable tools available to any product team is visibility. That’s why, for example, we created Craft.io’s capacity planning and product portfolio management tools.

In our post announcing the Craft.io progress dashboard, we pointed out that this new tool makes it easy for product managers to visually analyze their progress on virtually any product-related metrics and categories: quarters, sprints, products, teams, objectives, etc. Users can also filter this data in any way they choose for even deeper insights – for example, to review how consistently a specific team has completed its tasks on time over several quarters.

One of the most valuable attributes of the Objectives and Key Results prioritization framework – and why we’re so thrilled that we’ve incorporated OKRs into the Craft.io platform – is how effectively it can help you bring together different departments across your company to work productively toward shared big-picture goals. Most of the other prioritization frameworks you’ve heard of – weighted scoring, the MoSCoW method, RICE, etc.