Jeremy Thomas and Myron Weber dig into mental models that help prioritizing a realistic roadmap for the short term and long term.
- We are in the Prioritize stage of the Strategy to Execution Model
- Hazards at this stage include assumptions, indecision and unresolved dependencies – financial, human and technological.
- The Multidimensional Roadmap incorporates some key insights for how to prioritize:
- Informing and Including stakeholders in the prioritizing process increases buy-in and alignment of effort,
- A proportional timescale let’s us plan the short term and long term together,
- A TBD bucket let’s us get everything on the roadmap,
- Showing the Demand, Capabilities, and Environment together gives a holistic perspective to help assure that the roadmap is realistic,
- The roadmap is a living document to be continuously updated as new information becomes available.
- The Eisenhower Matrix is a great tool for quickly identifying relative priorities.
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