projects, initiatives, and Codefying the mission into

Introduction

Initiatives, projects, and programs are all tools for clarifying the direction. By going through the process of creating projects with clear scopes and mapping them out in a timeline it makes the mission more practical and how to build towards it more clear.

This timeline combined with the priority sets a clear path of execution for the near future, right in front of you, and ideally a bit out of reach. Anyone in your company can look at the product initiatives to quickly understand what the most important streams of work are, why they matter, and how they are progressing.

Different kinds of projects

Initiatives

Programs

Projects

Streams

Or workstreams

Traditional project management has had a notorious past of "the operation was a complete success, but the patient died", with strict deadlines that are never met, a set scope that keeps changing and victim blaming.

That is why people have started calling them initatives instead of

Initiatives, Programs, Projects, Workstreams, Transformations. Are all in effect still projects. We choose