We build Plan✕ in the open, co-creating it with LPAs that use it every day. To do so, we use:

• a roadmap for the long term, made of yearly phases
• a roadmap phase each year
• a Statement of Work every two months
• 4-week cycles for delivery

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Check out our Content & Services Roadmap and our Product Roadmap

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🔮 Roadmap phase: one year

The roadmap sets the big picture: what we want Plan✕ to achieve over the year (January to December). We review it every 8 weeks together with councils at Roadmap week.

📄 Statement of Work: two months

Each Statement of Work covers two calendar months (January–February, March–April, and so on). It lists what we'll deliver in that time, across product features and services that are part of a Roadmap phase. We agree it with councils at Roadmap week, before it starts.

🔁 Cycles: four weeks

Cycles are the delivery units where the work actually happens. Each one is 4 weeks long. There are two cycles in every Statement of Work.

🗓️ How can you help us shape Plan✕?

• Roadmap week: At the end of each Statement of Work, we hold Roadmap week to agree what comes next. Joining is optional, but it's the best way to help us shape the priorities for the upcoming roadmap phase and/or statement of works.
• Plan✕ News: Halfway through each Statement of Work (end of the first cycle), we hold Plan✕ News to show what we've been working on so far across product and services and what we’ll do next.
• ODP Show & Tell: Every two weeks, Open Digital Planning (ODP) runs a Public S&T (1st Wednesday of the month) and an ODP demo (3rd Wednesday), 10–11am. It's where you'll see updates from councils and products across ODP, including Plan✕.

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Want to know which Slack channels and meetings to join? See Which Slack channels and meetings should I join?.

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