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Tag: Strategy
Deciding what to do and what not to do: strategy kernels, Wardley Maps, stakeholder analysis, and developing strategy iteratively.
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Kent Beck's model for understanding how products move through Explore, Expand, and Extract phases, each requiring different strategies, risk tolerances, and investment approaches.
The Desirability/Viability/Feasibility model for balancing business, user, and technical impacts.
Deliberately reshaping team structure to produce a desired system architecture.
Treating strategies as hypotheses that are tested, measured, and refined in cycles rather than defined once and executed.
A seven-component system that models how product engineering organizations align vision, strategy, and execution.
Centering collaborations around a visual map with routes helps bring everyone into the same mental model.
How perpetual urgency sabotages strategic work and what to do about it.
A living canvas that captures the key dimensions of a change initiative, from vision and boundaries to strategies, people, and risks.
A playbook for balancing product delivery with system quality through deliberate technical investment.
Richard Rumelt's framework for strategy as diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent action.
Simon Wardley's openly licensed guide to strategic mapping using value chains and component evolution.
A lightweight alignment framework that helps product and engineering teams build sustainable focus around work that drives strategic outcomes.
A decision-rights framework that clarifies who recommends, agrees, performs, provides input, and decides.
An activity for categorizing stakeholders by their relationship to a change and analyzing what they gain and sacrifice.
A strategic mapping technique that visualizes the value chain and plots components by their evolutionary stage.
An immersive workshop that helps leaders align on a shared change vision, develop iterative strategies, and build a communications plan for enrolling people in transformation.
Map your current team structures, design a future-state organization that optimizes flow and collaboration, and build a change plan for getting there incrementally.