May 9, 2022, 7:30 a.m.

Strategic Initiatives, a visualization

Known Unknowns

The company I work for took its strategic goals and wrapped them around the five core areas we focus on to create a strategic bullseye. This visualization helps everyone in the company understand what our mission is.

I use a modified version of the strategic bullseye to help my team understand where a specific project fits into the grand vision for our company. It can be hard to see how tech projects help the company as a software engineering team.

In the project charter, I highlight the strategic initiatives this project impacts.

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Perhaps your company could use something similar. I could see the five core areas covering things like:

  • Business-to-business

  • Business-to-consumer

  • Internal tooling

  • Vendor tools

  • DevOps

Then the strategic initiatives might be something like:

  • Usability

  • Customer Acquisition

  • Uptime

  • Accessibility

For a project to move to cloud-based hosting, you highlight the section where DevOps and Uptime intersect.

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