You can skip to the "The Four-Day Process" at the end to get the gist.
But for people living in an organisation suffering from those problems, reading how other solutions were tried and how they failed is valuable, and it puts things in context of why the recommended approach may work best.
As someone who has been at multiple organizations suffering from planning hell, most of the time the solution is pretty clear but outside factors prevent it.
Our Quarterly PI planning is nightmare but Sales wants to sell the backlog so fighting is different business units fighting over which items should be done and how fast they are done.
It's generally employees meta optimizing for themselves instead of larger business and business is too big for CEO to figure out. Railways career page says they are a team of 27 so CEO/Founder/Whoever has vision in their head and keep steering everyone towards that vision.
However, as Ops type, looks like could be interesting job. Digs further
You got downvoted but then I read some and you're not wrong.
I think we should call out bad writing assuming English is their first language. Bad, lazy writing, doesn't respect the audience.
> Instead of crowd sourcing the OKRs from the company and bubbling them up per function.
First sentence under the heading "Good Ole Projects". This is not a sentence.
edit: The charitable pov is that writing is very hard work and writing and publishing anything is a net good. I wish for more people to respect how hard writing is and also to take the time to write well! So that's why that sentence bothered me.
Author here, not my intent! My deepest apologies. English is my first language but people do joke that they say I write English like I learned it as a second language.
I have fixed the sentence fragment and connected the two thoughts together. Thank you for keeping me honest.
But for people living in an organisation suffering from those problems, reading how other solutions were tried and how they failed is valuable, and it puts things in context of why the recommended approach may work best.