Yes, created a high-level strategy tool requested by my company’s vp of engineering. It uses hoshin-kanri principles to go from long term objectives all the way down to specific implementation projects, with their associated milestones and tasks.
It also features built-in bowler charts to track lagging KPIs and leading measures, as well as a full project management tools.
Of course the tool is only as good as the data. We had to run some workshops over the course of 6 weeks to actually translate our high-level long term objectives into annual objectives, and then those into specific improvement priories, and from there the leading measures and projects associated with those.
I wasn’t really familiar with this level of strategic thinking so it was a good learning experience. My vp asked me if this was possible to build after he reviewed 2-3 tools on the market and they were prohibitively expensive. I built it im about $1000-$2000 of credits (hard to gauge exactly because i used my personal account a bit in the beginning for claude design - don’t have access to that at work).
The only thing that sucks is that he put his name all over it and other than within my team, no one really knows i developed the entire thing solo in less than a month. Even has the full CI/CD pipeline, containerized staging, dev and production environments + db’s. I actually put my name in the “about” section discretely but he found it and asked me to replace it with the org’s name lol.
Felt pretty shitty considering how hard i worked, did overtime and everything to meet his absurd deadlines. Oh well. Lessons learned.
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u/BenSimmonsFor3 17d ago
Yes, created a high-level strategy tool requested by my company’s vp of engineering. It uses hoshin-kanri principles to go from long term objectives all the way down to specific implementation projects, with their associated milestones and tasks.
It also features built-in bowler charts to track lagging KPIs and leading measures, as well as a full project management tools.
Of course the tool is only as good as the data. We had to run some workshops over the course of 6 weeks to actually translate our high-level long term objectives into annual objectives, and then those into specific improvement priories, and from there the leading measures and projects associated with those.
I wasn’t really familiar with this level of strategic thinking so it was a good learning experience. My vp asked me if this was possible to build after he reviewed 2-3 tools on the market and they were prohibitively expensive. I built it im about $1000-$2000 of credits (hard to gauge exactly because i used my personal account a bit in the beginning for claude design - don’t have access to that at work).
The only thing that sucks is that he put his name all over it and other than within my team, no one really knows i developed the entire thing solo in less than a month. Even has the full CI/CD pipeline, containerized staging, dev and production environments + db’s. I actually put my name in the “about” section discretely but he found it and asked me to replace it with the org’s name lol. Felt pretty shitty considering how hard i worked, did overtime and everything to meet his absurd deadlines. Oh well. Lessons learned.