The Timeline

Start planning your strategy, product launch, or advertising campaign following a timeline.

Steps: 4
Last edited: Mar 2, 2021
Created by: Nova

About this process

Start planning your strategy, product launch, or advertising campaign using this whiteboard where you will be able to move all the milestones and main projects around until you are satisfied with your action plan. Get your team involved (and/or client) and discuss your plan further. Tips: Each timeline represents a quarter (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) Each month is divided in 4 weeks Add your monthly goals on the left side of the line. Use different sticky notes colors for the type of work, milestone or departments This is a discussion tool, we recommend you to use a project management tool to add tasks and all the specifics.

The process in detail

4 steps

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Whats your current state?
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Goal
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Planning board
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What would need to be true to ensure this plan succeed?

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1. Whats your current state?

Describe your current state by sharing qualitative and quantitative information. For example: " We currently have 200 users and our website gets 1000 visitors a month, 30% of those visitors abandon the website in the first minute. Our current team is small and everyone is working extra hours to respond to new inquiries, but we are unable to hire more people."

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2. Goal

Try to be specific. When you say: "we want to grow our business" define "grow your business". A goal is a general statement of what you want to achieve in a specific time and for a specific reason. Examples of good business goals are: Increase profit margins by the end of the year Increase efficiency by the end of the year Provide better customer service by the end of the year Reduce carbon emissions by the end of the year Reduce cost by improving our employee training by the end of the year

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3. Planning board

Start discussing or planning your strategy, product launch or advertising campaign using the planning board.

Work on the whiteboardYour Plan

4. What would need to be true to ensure this plan succeed?

Next Steps: Develop a mitigation plan. Use our RAID tool.

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Your Plan

Ex: Increase sales Improve our UX to increase user engagement
Objectives board: Main 2-5 objectives (3 months)
Objectives board: Main 2-5 objectives (3 months)
Objectives board: Main 2-5 objectives (3 months)
Objectives board: Main 2-5 objectives (3 months)
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Capabilities

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Created byNova·Official process

Last edited Mar 2, 2021·4 steps