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How do you organize this way? First you begin with the customer or user—whomever is consuming your product at the end of the day. What is the value that you are providing them? Then work backward. What are the touchpoints they have with your company on the way to receiving that value? Having identified these, how do you organize to optimize and streamline that journey for them? How do you optimize to provide more value, faster?
Escaping the Build Trap
Melissa Perri
All those lovely ideas you have for projects get moved into your pipeline. Pipelines are more suited to OKRs than Roadmaps. ... I’ll define Roadmaps as a plan for our desired future and Pipelines as a collection of ideas of projects that might get us to our desired future. Roadmaps have dates. Pipelines use impact/effort/confidence to prioritize the best ideas. By saying Pipelines are preferable to Roadmaps, I simply mean that Pipelines give you flexibility as you try to reach your Objective. If you call it a Roadmap but treat it like a Pipeline, that’s fine. The critical idea is that you have a long list of potential solutions to try out. ... If you have a Roadmap, you’ll want to dismantle it and put it in a Pipeline format.
Radical Focus SECOND EDITION
Christina Wodtke
> **Step 1 — Define a strategic Narrative**
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> The biggest benefit of NCTs is that they provide more connective tissue between your strategy and the goals necessary to achieve that strategy.
> Defining the Narrative is often the hardest part — because it forces teams to justify their work. But, this step is also the most important part. If it’s not clear what your strategy is, it doesn’t matter what your goals are.
> If it’s not clear what your strategy is, it doesn’t matter what your goals are.
> The Narrative is a 1-3 sentence qualitative description of what the team wants to achieve and why it matters to the business. The Narrative’s purpose is to tie the team’s immediate work to the company’s long-term strategy. A well-structured narrative will provide the strategic context and guardrails that allow individuals to make better decisions. You can do this by including the following:
> • Detail on why the initiative is a priority
> • Recent learnings relevant to the initiative
> • Past efforts or problems with similar initiatives
> • How the initiative fits into the broader product vision
How to Set and Achieve Ambitious Goals
Ravi Mehta
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