Every planning cycle starts the same way. We sit together, agree on a handful of goals and everyone leaves the meeting motivated. A few weeks later, Jira holds hundreds of tickets, new requests come in every day, and the question “are we actually working on what we agreed on?” gets harder and harder to answer.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://percona.community/blog/2026/09/29/laserfocus-keeping-our-goals-in-sight/