Things that aren't engineering strategy.

This is pruned from an in-progress article on engineering strategy.

When you’re writing an engineering strategy, what you put in is important, but it’s almost as important to be deliberate about what you choose to leave out. The full list of things to exclude is uncountably vast, but there are a few worth emphasizing in particular.

LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner documented their hierarchy of operating documents as Vision, Mission, Strategy, Objectives, Priorities, Culture, and Values (which some compa...