Strategy – defined principles prescribing actions that will (hopefully) help us arrive at a future, aspirational state – is important. Really important. But we often ignore the big picture when running projects. It is too easy to forget that strategy and the execution of that strategy form an ecosystem in which the death of one will inevitably…

Silence blanketed the Great Hall as the King’s Minister, a wizened elf of indeterminate age and hairstyle, stood to address the War Council. “There is discord on the western frontier. News reaches the Council of increased pirate activity along the eastern seaboard. Troop movements have been spotted in the south by the eagles. Esteemed brethren,…