The strategy-to-backlog stack

The strategy-to-backlog stackThe strategy-to-backlog stack: kernel and cascade at the top, DHM and SMT bets, prioritization filter, roadmap and backlog, with a feedback loop of evidenceStrategy kernel and choice cascadeDiagnosis, where to play, how to win, guiding policy (and whatwe won't do)Strategy bets (DHM and SMT)Each strategy paired with a proxy metric and tacticsStrategy filter, then prioritizationDoes it serve a coherent action? Only then score itOutcome roadmap: now, next, laterCommitments, bets and explorations, labeled as suchBacklog: inbox, opportunities, deliveryShort, ordered, refined only for the next cyclesEvidence flowsback up thestackChoices flow down. What ships, and what the proxy metrics show, flows back upand revises the strategy.

The strategy-to-backlog stack. Prioritization frameworks work at one layer only: they rank items that have already passed the strategy filter, and can't tell you whether the backlog serves the strategy.