mission objectives
What to accomplish
Mission objectives are the specific goals that define success for a planned operation or undertaking.
The term appears most often in military, corporate, and gaming contexts: The team reviewed the mission objectives before deployment, Complete all mission objectives to advance to the next level.
Unlike broader aims, mission objectives tend to be concrete and measurable—things that can be checked off.
- prioritiesMost important things
- resultsWhat follows from effort
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- deliverablesContracted work products owed
- key performance indicatorsMeasurable values tracking success
vision · milestones · targets · metrics · contingency planning · maneuver · success · boots on the ground · scope · impact · benchmarks · alignment · intel · coordination · chain of command · strategy · directive · rules of engagement
- strategy gameschess, strategy, checkers, go, Go
- war gameswargaming, wargame, war games, combat simulations, Age of Empires
- Star TrekSpock, Kirk, Enterprise, USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk
mission objectivesaimlessness
Lack of direction
purposelessness · directionlessness · mission drift · goallessness · wandering
mission objectivesmethods
Ways to accomplish something
tactics · means · procedures · implementation · processes