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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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quick win

/ˌkwɪk ˈwɪn/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A dashboard delivered fast to defer the slow question of who acts on it. The win is quick because the hard part was left out of scope.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A small, visible result delivered early to build momentum and confidence for the larger effort behind it.

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See also
  • enablementThe function that hands teams a self-service portal to a decision that still requires three approvals they are not on.
  • okrsA quarterly ritual that converts work into numbers, then converts the numbers back into the work that was always going to happen anyway. Graded green by the same team that set them.
  • roadmapA map drawn for a vehicle that has not been built, on a road that resets each quarter. Everything important lives just past the visible horizon.
  • vendor demoA film in which your problem is played by a stand-in with clean data, good lighting, and a definition of customer everyone in the scene shares.