design-strategic-goals

To define strategic goals aligned with your North Star, provide your vision and NSM to generate 3-5 outcome-focused goals. This creates a focused goals document rather than a task list, explicitly linking each goal to your strategy.

Documenting project alignment during a strategy refresh is best handled by generating a concise goals document at docs/project-overview/strategic-goals.md. This artifact explicitly links each goal to your mission, vision, and North Star to ensure cross-team alignment.

A project should have 3 to 5 long-term strategic goals to effectively move toward the vision. This focused, outcome-oriented approach prevents diluting strategy and ensures each goal directly supports the North Star Metric.

Yes, you can use this for annual strategy planning to produce a clear, shareable artifact. It supports periodic strategy refreshes by generating a concise strategic goals document that ensures cross-team alignment with your North Star.

No, defining strategic goals does not require a task list or roadmap. The process produces a focused, outcome-oriented artifact that defines 3-5 long-term goals moving the project toward the vision and North Star.

Strategic goals should be linked to the North Star Metric to ensure cross-team alignment and verify that each goal moves the project toward the vision. This explicit linkage prevents misaligned efforts during strategy execution.