Am I getting it wrong? It sounds like they're still doing quarterly planning just with a different ritual?
I had hoped they'd realise quarterly planning is a bad premise and asked themselves why they do it.
If you have a mature product where you add incremental features, you don't need that plan because it's just an arbitrary block of pretty fungible work.
If you're still looking for product market fit, that three month plan wont last a week before becoming obsolete.
If you need to build a bigger thing that is only valuable once it's all done, you A: need a project and B: probably don't because it will fail.
I had hoped they'd realise quarterly planning is a bad premise and asked themselves why they do it.
If you have a mature product where you add incremental features, you don't need that plan because it's just an arbitrary block of pretty fungible work.
If you're still looking for product market fit, that three month plan wont last a week before becoming obsolete.
If you need to build a bigger thing that is only valuable once it's all done, you A: need a project and B: probably don't because it will fail.