We're drowning because we lack the scaffolding to say no, or not right now. 🚷
It starts at the top, with Senior Leadership and their vast lists of projects fighting for your attention.
😵💫 "All 17 OKRs are business critical"
😵💫 "Everything is important"
If those with the most power to say NO won’t even use it, how are the rest of us meant to?
However, looking at your project backlog misses the real root of the issue:
📝 Strategy! = Planning
What most people call Strategy is simply a list of shit they want Done, asap.
Lacking in Coherence: disconnected from what's happening on the ground, and providing little room for adaption as we learn, or key factors shift.
🔆 So what should Strategy Provide?
Strategy provides the scaffolding for what how we approach all our work.
Good Strategy explains which games we want to play, on which fields, and why.
It also tells us which games we won't play, and why.
Just because you called it Strategy doesn't make it useful in the heat of the action.
Overloaded Backlogs are a sign of a weak Strategy
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