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strategic-build

Decide whether a proposed build is leverage, neutral, or overhead before the team commits.

  • Area: Strategy
  • Category: product management
  • Level: beginner
  • Input: conversation
  • Output: document
  • Setup: none
  • Roles: CEO / Founder, Product Manager

Evaluate proposed features or initiatives with LNO classification, strategic review, and pre-mortem analysis.

How you ask

  • “Should we build this feature? Give me a strategic review”
  • “Classify this initiative using the LNO framework”
  • “Run a pre-mortem on our proposed product direction”
  • “Is this real product work or product theater?”

Inputs

  • initiative — Work to classify as strategic or operational
  • scope — company, or a client-id under {company.clients}/ — a string with one reserved value, not a closed set
  • initiative — Initiative under review
  • evidence — Data supporting or undermining the current direction
  • initiative — Initiative to pre-mortem
  • horizon — How far ahead to imagine the failure

Outputs

  • build-classification (markdown)
  • pre-mortem-analysis (markdown)
  • strategic-review (markdown)
  • {scope.knowledge-base.product}/strategic-build-classification-{work-item-slug}-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md
  • {scope.knowledge-base.product}/strategic-build-pre-mortem-{work-item-slug}-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md
  • {scope.knowledge-base.product}/strategic-build-review-{work-item-slug}-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md