Strategy Workshop

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This workshop will teach you how to build business strategies. This is a 10 minutes text. In the future we will add more formats: video, powerpoint, and pdf. Here is a 3 min trailer:

Summary of all the steps in this workshop

  1. Imagine your team celebrate a successful year
  2. Write a customer, a need, and dependencies
  3. Draw a map
  4. Locate the dependencies on the evolution axis
  5. Add climatic patters
  6. Add doctrine
  7. Add gameplay
  8. Decide on actions
  9. Take actions

Repeat the 9 steps with the team every few weeks.

cycle

Those steps are called the strategy cycle. You can learn more in the resources section at the end of the workshop.

1. Imagine your team celebrates a successful year

Set up a 45 minutes session with your team and together imagine a celebration that everyone is part of. Write down who is there, what are they celebrating, how do they feel, when is it happening, and why are they there. You can start the session in 5 minutes meditation.

At the end of the session, write down a shared celebration that everyone on the team is part of and share it with other teams. Congrats! You just created a shared true north for the team.

2. Write down a customer, need, and dependency

Steps:

  1. Write down name of a customer.
  2. Write one need of this customer.
  3. Write a few things that are needed to meet this need.

Example:

  1. User: software engineer.
  2. Need: build a web site.
  3. Dependencies: choose a technology, learn how to use it, build a web site, test it, deploy it, maintain it.

3. Draw a map

TODO: add drawing

4. Locate the dependencies on the evolution axis

TODO: add drawing

References:

5. Add climatic patters

TODO: add drawing

References:

6. Add doctrine

TODO: add drawing

References:

7. Add gameplay

TODO: add drawing

References:

8. Decide on actions

9. Take actions

Optional Material

Cheatsheets:

Resources: