Agenda:

• Did we do/finish the Money Meeting?

• Scheduling the meeting with Agu:

  

  • Who’s Agu?
  • Meeting link: https://zcal.co/ar10/30min

• Coordination Headwind: by Alex Komoroske and us.

Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

Having a Product Strategy will make it much easier to be smart about our SCOPING. You may have noticed we already scoped to Dragonborn in order to get close to happy users. With a product strategy that includes our real artists, perhaps we can give users a chance to purchase one of our human-made Dragonborn!?

• What is Product Strategy and how do we do it?

  • How: “Creating a product strategy should be a collaborative process. You want to focus on getting buy-in from all the important stakeholders.”

  • Why: “After all, the point of a strategy is to align people in a common direction.”

  • Imagine if the Apple team was so focused on updating the iPod and didn’t realize they should be designing an iPhone instead.

  • Product Vision (p. 179)

    • One sentence
    • Storyboard
    • Demo video

  • Strategic Framework (p 184)

    • Like the “spec for our strategy”
    • Empowers individuals to make good, fast decisions on their own
      • Helps people remember the important parts of the strategy
    • What we need:
      • High level framing
      • Goals
      • Principles
      • Describes target market
      • Bets we are making and why

    Strategic Framework

  • The Roadmap: leads to achieving the vision

    Roadmap Roadmap

    • Prioritize
    • Sequence
    • Roughly-costed plan

    

Checklist for Strategy:

• [ ] Can everyone say a one or two sentence version of our strategy that makes sense?
• [ ] Do we have vision, framework, and roadmap?
• [ ] Do we have several key hypotheses?
  • [ ] Can these be split into different workstreams?
  • [ ] Do we have owners and participants?
• [ ] Did we co-create it?
• [ ] Did we winnow down the list?
• [ ] Do we have an artifact that clearly communicates it visually (and quickly!)?
• [ ] Do we have a scoreboard or something that serves as a role model for accountability?

Next steps:

My bet is that we will get aligned on Vision and spend only a few minutes on Framework and Roadmap each. So each of the core elements will expect effort between now and our next meeting. To improve the vision and maybe finalize it for now. To flesh out the framework and roadmap. Etc.