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Questions tagged [strategy]

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What does a Product Owner do if they disagree with the CEO's direction on product strategy?

What can, and should, a Product Owner / Product Manager do if the CEO has mandated that the team builds something which the Product Owner feels is not in the best interests of the customer? Aside from presenting a case and aiming to influence the…
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Tools, templates or techniques to facilitate defining project vision?

I am planning on facilitating one or more sessions with key stakeholders in order to define and document a shared "vision" for the end-state coming out of a planned business improvement project. This vision will feed into further sessions to define…
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How to involve the whole team in setting quarterly objectives (OKRs)?

Context I'm a scrum master in a small (15 FTEs) organization that's about one year into a slow agile transformation. So far the shift towards agile has been limited to the Development team, but the other teams are also wanting to move in that…
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How do you employ agility in defining the strategy of a project?

When defining the strategy of a given project based on it's mission to deliver well-defined goals to meet the organization's vision, how do you employ the philosophy of agility as well as it's quality attributes such as speed, value, etc? Is there…
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Developing a digital strategy

I work in Australia for one of the world's largest companies. Our marketing team has a large budget for IT (information technology) projects but has very little direction or guidance in the way that money is spent (budgets and tracking costs). At…
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What are good KPI's for measuring high-level strategic goals?

I need to track organizational execution on high-level, long-term goals, along the lines of: Encourage collaboration Improve productivity Increase customer satisfaction Some of these can be measured via surveys of empowerment, etc. But how can I…
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managing a project without subject matter expertise

I'm new to this Stack Exchange community and am currently working in a large project (> 15000 staff hours) in the public sector. As the only subject matter expert on the team (6 members in total) I'm supposed act as the professional "lead" on the…
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Why are fiscal quarters a thing?

There exists a widespread separation of one year into 12 roughly equal slices. What is the benefit of introducing a very similar one b = floor(a/4)? How is we'll do it 2021Q1 better than we'll be done by Apr 2021? Why do whole organizations plan in…
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How is a project's governance different to its strategy?

As i understand it, governance is the strategic task of defining an organization's goals, direction, limitations and accountability which sounds similar to a strategy however people seem to refer to them differently. Is there a difference between a…
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Business Case - Strategic Alignment

I am a college student studying a unit on Web Project Management. I have an assessment in which I have to plan a website design project for a client as part of an agency. I am currently writing the business case based on the template provided by my…
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What are the special advantages of regression method of forecasting over others

In Quantitative Forecasting, there are different methods to predict the future. How Regression Analysis is more special than: Simple moving average Weighted moving average exponential smoothing and what is its advantages ?
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How fast can one change the IT organization to a Business Game Changer

There are five stages of an IT organization from a business stakeholders' view: Cost center Service Provider IT Partner Business Peer Business Game Changer (Source: CIO Magazine 2013 State of the CIO Survey) If the company is between first and…
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Internal Competition vs Collaboration

Suppose you are a senior executive designing an organization that owns multiple brands in an industry. You can either structure the business unit to have each brand compete or collaborate. How do you decide which philosophy to adopt? Does it depend…
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How can I improve the team efficiency

I am 20 years old and together with my friend have been working on side projects since 4 years ago. This summer we finished high school and thought of taking things more seriously. We took a worker to help us manage the webpages, or better say an…
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