Product Strategy and Vision
Prioritization answers "what should we build next?" — but that question is unanswerable without a prior one: "what are we trying to achieve, and why?" That's strategy and vision. Without them, prioritization becomes a directionless scramble of locally-sensible choices that don't add up to anything. Vision provides the destination; strategy provides the path; and together they turn a stream of features into a coherent product going somewhere. For engineers, understanding strategy explains the "why" behind everything the team does.
Prioritization answers 'what should we build next?' — but that's unanswerable without a prior question: 'what are we trying to achieve, and why?' That's strategy and vision. Without them, prioritization becomes a directionless scramble of locally-sensible choices that don't add up to anything.