ResultMaps lets you organize what you are doing (the “things” in ResultMaps) and how they fit together.
The “things” in ResultMaps are Goals and their related bits (objectives, rocks, key results, depending on the goal-setting framework you use), action items, and projects.
Things can fit together around a job you need to do - for example
Staying on top of your stuff (My Stuff)
Aligning a team through a weekly meeting/weekly priorities
Working through a 1x1 meeting
You can access these “contexts” through the side navigation bar.
Things can also fit together by being related to each other. These relationships include
An action item can have sub-actions (i.e. a "punchlist")
A project has many actions below it - the deliverables and milestones that make up the project.
A project can also have a sub-project below it
A key result can have actions and projects aligned to it.
A key result belongs to an objective.
These relationships are shown in the form of “breadcrumb links” in many places, or by accessing the alignment tab for the thing in question.
You can also see how things fit together using the mind-map views in the execution section and for a given project.
Tips and things to know
Items can be put into multiple contexts. For example, you can have an action item “Deliver the draft proposal. ” You might create it in your prioritizer, and then add to your team weekly priorities.
Later you might add it to to a project called “Win the Acme Account.”
Or it might start off in the project. Then you add it to your weekly priorities. And then you decide you want it on your personal prioritizer as well to make sure it's reflected in your personal priorities.
What’s the difference?
When you want to prioritize everything you personally are doing, or get a sense of how the action item “Deliver the draft proposal” fits into your priorities against everything else on your personal list, you’d access it from My Stuff/Prioritizer
If you want to communicate to your team that priority is important enough to be factored in against your other team priorities, include it in your Team weekly priorities. This ensures it shows up during your weekly meeting and allows your team lead to confirm or correct where it falls according to the team’s various priorities. It also can be seen whether it gets done over the coming week - and can therefore move over to your team’s issues list if problems arise.
That same item might be viewed in the context of the project it lives in to see what other items in the project are affected by it, or how it fits in over all.
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