When to write strategy, and how much?

Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy.When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy thatyour organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather thaninvesting time into understanding it.

Fortunately, these are universal problems, and there are a handful ofuseful mental models to avoid both extremes.This chapter covers:

when to write strategy, in particular t...