Introduction to refinement tools

Perhaps the most important piece of the Steps to build an engineering strategy is strategy refinement. As we already worked through the overview of strategy refinement in the “Steps” section of this book, the goal of the “Refinement” section is to go into much greater detail about the three core mapping techniques: strategy testing, systems modeling, and Wardley mapping.

As we work through them, keep in mind that there are many other techniques out there, such as the many covered in Eben Hewitt’s Technology Strategy Patterns. This section covers those that I’ve found most useful, and you can find breadcrumbs to those preferred by others in the appendix on strategy resources.

With that said, it’s time to start drilling into strategy testing.