Philip Haine — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:48:32 GMT

Patrick, yes, extremely!

It’s easy for organizations and individuals to get lost in the details of what they are doing and spend months or years doing things because they have always been done. When I put their initiatives in this format they start to visualize the cause & effect and start nodding.

It facilitates discourse critical vision questions like, “why are we really doing this feature?” and “which of these goals really matters the most?” and “which initiatives are having the greatest contribution to the goals?” and “what other initiatives could we be doing that have stronger effects on our goals?” These strategic discussions have major effect on the ultimate outcome of a project.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Philip Haine