The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of an agile planning and operations framework for an academic research library, designed to facilitate an ongoing organizational conversation about the organization’s strategic intent and how it plans to move from intention to reality. The goals motivating the implementation of such a framework include creating iterative, open-ended planning and management processes that enable increased flexibility and openness to unforeseen opportunities, as well as the ongoing integration of library faculty, staff, and external stakeholder voices into planning, management, and assessment discussions.,The framework seeks to harmonize planning, management, and assessment processes over 18-24-month rolling time horizons, during which organizational efforts and investments would be reviewed and revised in an iterative fashion.,The authors share results and analyses from stakeholder assessments used to develop foundational mission, vision, values, and strategic directions documentation and discuss the structural, cultural, and organizational development challenges confronted and gains experienced in implementing the framework.,Many academic libraries are exploring new approaches to strategic planning, ways to enhance organizational health, and manage change. The authors are unaware of an academic or research library that has attempted to design and implement a similar approach to strategic planning and its assessment. The agile planning framework provides an alternative to traditional “waterfall” approaches to strategic planning for libraries.

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敏捷的计划和运营框架

本文的目的是描述学术研究图书馆的敏捷计划和运营框架的设计和实施，旨在促进正在进行的有关组织战略意图以及如何计划从意图转变为现实的组织对话。激励实施此类框架的目标包括创建迭代的，开放式的计划和管理流程，以增强对意外机会的灵活性和开放性，并将图书馆教职员工，外部利益相关者的声音不断整合到计划，管理中和评估讨论。该框架寻求在18-24个月的滚动时间范围内协调计划，管理和评估流程，在此过程中，组织工作和投资将以迭代的方式进行审查和修订。作者分享了利益相关者评估的结果和分析，这些评估和分析用于制定基本使命，愿景，价值观和战略方向文档，并讨论结构，文化和组织发展在实施该框架时面临的挑战和经验。许多大学图书馆正在探索战略规划的新方法，增强组织健康和管理变革的方法。作者没有意识到试图设计和实施类似方法进行战略规划及其评估的学术或研究图书馆。敏捷规划框架为图书馆的战略规划提供了传统“瀑布式”方法的替代方案。