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Strategy Jump Starts

A named workshop format used by Leah Hitman (SVPG) to open a Product Model (vs. Roadmap Model) transformation engagement. Business-owner stakeholders and product-team stakeholders are brought into the same room to make hard prioritization calls together, with the goal of landing a single prioritized list of problems to solve for the year.

Run one at the very start of a transformation: it forces leadership alignment before any team-level change begins, and lets an external coach model good strategic questioning live, in front of the team, rather than lecturing about it. See External Coach as a 'Guiding Light' Through Transformation for the broader coaching posture this technique sits inside, and Three-Axis Transformation Diagnostic (Build / Solve / Decide) for the 'choosing the right problem' dimension it primarily targets.