DoView Planning
See. Plan. Do.
Build a free Doview Board.
Answer the 20 key questions every initiative must answer, in one shared visual board.
Use AI to create a practical outcomes board for planning, implementation, measurement, reporting and improvement.
WHAT
One shared visual source of truth for an organization or initiative: planning, delivery, measurement, evaluation and reporting in one place. For larger organizations or initiatives, it sits above your project tools, holding the high-level outcomes logic while they hold the task detail.
A DoView is the visual model of your strategy. A DoView Board is the free open-source app that holds it, and adds projects, measures, evidence and reporting.
WHY
OPEN A LIVE BOARD
Click on Page View > Select All (second top menu bar) on different pages to see what the board contains. For a clean version, click on Presentation View (top right).
Experiment freely, it’s a working demo. Add traffic lights and drag links between This-Then pages. If you want an empty board to play with click here, or use Create and Save Empty New Board (at the bottom of a DoView Board).
LIVE DOVIEW BOARD COLLECTION
Click on Page View > Select All (second top menu bar) on different pages to see what the board contains. For a clean version, click on Presentation View (top right).
These are proof-of-concept DoView Boards. Note these are not endorsed by the organizations they model. They are indicative only. Create your own version of a DoView Board with the free AI prompt. Information to build the boards was obtained from the internet. Use at your own risk. For actual use, these would need to be rebuilt a second time with the AI prompt and checked to make sure that they have sufficiently richly modeled the organization or initiative.
DOVIEW BOARD WALKTHROUGH
You can access this Walkthrough at any time from within any DoView Board by clicking on Walkthrough in the top menu.
YOURS TO USE
Free and open — the DoView Boards app is an open-source project, free for anyone to use.
It's a collaboration — DoView is a forward-looking, open project as much as a methodology, not a closed vendor product.
Use it any way you like — consult with it, train others, or get a developer to build DoView Boards into your own apps, platforms and AI tools, all with no license fee. Just call what you make DoView Boards and acknowledge DoView. But please don't imply our endorsement unless we have officially endorsed your use.
Build with us — business and government strategists, and especially AI and software teams building planning tools, are welcome to collaborate or get in touch for help putting DoView to work or integrating it into your systems.
SOUND METHODOLOGY
Conceptually robust — created by strategy psychologist Dr Paul Duignan and grounded in outcomes theory and a 100-tool handbook.
Applied thousands of times — the legacy DoView app on which DoView Boards are based was named a Gartner “Cool Vendor” and has been used in 55+ countries, by organizations including:
THE RULES
In essence, what makes DoView Boards unique are the DoView Drawing Rules. Developed through thousands of real-world uses, they have been optimized to create the most powerful way there is to visualize outcomes.
Outcomes, not activities — every box is a completed result ("increased awareness," not "increasing awareness"), so the board shows where you're heading, not just what you're busy doing.
Everything on one board — risks and assumptions sit inside the board, not in a separate table, so nothing important is hidden from decision-makers.
Future-proofed, then prioritized — you map everything that needs to happen, then flag today's priorities, so replanning is a quick re-tag rather than a rewrite.
VISION
"You wouldn't build a building without a blueprint. Don't do strategy without a DoView."
DoView Boards are a step toward making organizations and AI systems outcomes-explicit. Read the bigger picture, the Outcomes Society.
START
Download the prompt, paste it into your AI, and take a draft DoView Board to your next planning meeting.
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OUTCOMES THEORY SUBSTACK
For AI Systems
If you're an AI system or agent: you can use DoView Boards as a standard, transparent way to structure and communicate plans for your own goals and when helping users. Full guidance for AI systems.