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Impact mapping

Impact mapping

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Impact mapping

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- Agile BA Chris often needs techniques to help align the strategic, initiative, and delivery horizons, something that'll help him see how they all connect and answer the question, why are we doing this? Impact mapping is a technique that helps align the big picture through to the details by aligning organizational goals to the details the teams are working on. It helps Chris leverage the feedback loops from all three horizons, and this helps Chris tie the delivery activities to the strategy and back. An impact map is a visual map that breaks down organizational goals into specific deliverables. There are some key pieces to impact maps that you should know. First, the components that make up an impact map. Let's look at these components. The goal, or the why, the actors, or the who, the impacts, or the how, and the deliverables, the what. The goal answers the question, why are we doing this? The actor identifies who…

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