Tag: Strategy

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.

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.

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.

A lightweight alignment framework that helps product and engineering teams build sustainable focus around work that drives strategic outcomes.

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.

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.

Map your current team structures, design a future-state organization that optimizes flow and collaboration, and build a change plan for getting there incrementally.

A seven-component system that models how product engineering organizations align vision, strategy, and execution.

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.

Simon Wardley's openly licensed guide to strategic mapping using value chains and component evolution.