Visibility before coordination
Planning is impossible when nobody knows what's already in flight. Before you try to introduce prioritization or sprint planning, just make the current state legible. Who is working on what. What's stuck. What's unowned. Once people can see reality, the coordination conversations happen on their own. Skip this step and every planning attempt feels like overhead because people are still arguing about what's true. Once the current state is legible, you can often Broadcast decisions to replace meetings instead of scheduling them.