strategy pm-practice draft Sept 9, 2025 Note: I’m attempting to fuse elements of [Good Strategy Bad Strategy], Lean Stack/Product-Market Fit, and Wardley Maps together. This may be a waste of time but I continue to return to each of these frameworks and I suspect that I can simplify my strategy assessments and planning by creating some common principles.
References
- https://blog.gardeviance.org/2014/11/fools-mate-in-business.html
- https://medium.com/mappingpractice/how-to-organise-yourself-f36f084a611b
Considerations
- Map the landscape
- Set your timeline
- When do you need to hit your objective by?
- Order effect: 1st, 2nd, 3rd?
- Sometimes this is bundled in the concept of time horizons, where horizon one is usually a 1st order effect move. You can pull a well-known set of levers to get the effects you want.
From https://medium.com/mappingpractice/how-to-organise-yourself-f36f084a611b:
Keying in on the “Market action” properties:
- Gambling
- Exploring
- Market analysis
- Metric driven