| This is a bit of a recap article as my head has just been jammed with distractions over the past two weeks.
Over the past 6 months (almost half-year anniversary!) I have jumped in and out of a few topics including roadmaps, strategy and win loss analysis. From time to time, I recall some of the posts and the following question pops into my head – “How does doing X make me strategic?” It doesn’t. Just having a roadmap doesn’t make you strategic. Just doing win/loss doesn’t make you strategic. They are, however excellent supporting activities. As we know from previous articles, your roadmap is the record of communication for your strategy. Included in that document is the plan, the vision, your mission, your value network and all of the supporting material that you have accumulated for your roadmap. So just doing win loss analysis won’t make you strategic, but if you tie it back as either an activity that extends or validates your roadmap then it is strategic. You might be wondering about roadmap because in one paragraph I said having a roadmap doesn’t make you strategic but in the other I said that it is strategy. Having a roadmap where you plot out these features in these releases at these times is hardly being strategic. However, if you have put the time in to document the plan, why it is the plan and what the end looks like, you now have a strategic document and can consider yourself strategic. Strategy is hard and you have to put a lot of time and effort into it. Every activity has (should have?) potential to affect your roadmap and you need to be prepared to record and articulate it. More on these topics through time. I would like to take the time to thank the readers, the commenters and the people who share my posts. Much appreciated! For an added bonus to this post and in case you missed them, here are the three most viewed posts since the start of this blog:
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