define-strategic-pillars

To derive strategic pillars, you read your established vision and North Star metric to generate 3–5 high-level themes. These themes structure your goals and roadmaps, producing a pillars document for organizational alignment.

Strategic pillars are high-level themes that organize and guide strategic goals and roadmaps. They serve as stable reference points for teams, unlike specific goals or initiatives, ensuring roadmaps align with the overarching vision and North Star.

You need to define strategic pillars after your vision and North Star are established but before setting specific goals. This process provides stable themes to structure roadmaps across multiple teams and ensures alignment with project norms.

No, generating strategic pillars requires a predefined vision and North Star metric. The derivation process validates alignment with these inputs to ensure the resulting themes correctly structure your project strategy.

Derived strategic pillars are persisted to docs/project-overview/strategic-pillars.md. The system saves this pillars document and references project norms only after receiving explicit user approval of the generated themes.

The best way to align cross-team roadmaps is by deriving 3–5 strategic pillars from your North Star metric. These pillars act as stable themes, facilitating the mapping of goals and roadmaps to ensure vision alignment across teams.