Community Toolkit has some useful information around building communities
VMOSA
Notes from: http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/strategic-planning/vmosa/main
Vision
Vision communicates what your organization believes are the ideal conditions for your community – how things would look if the issue important to you were perfectly addressed
Understood and shared by members of the community
Broad enough to encompass a variety of local perspectives
Inspiring and uplifting to everyone involved in your effort
Easy to communicate - for example, they should be short enough to fit on a T-shirt
Mission
Missions describes what the group is going to do, and why it's going to do that
Concise. Although not as short a phrase as a vision statement, a mission statement should still get its point across in one sentence.
Outcome-oriented. Mission statements explain the overarching outcomes your organization is working to achieve.
Inclusive. While mission statements do make statements about your group's overarching goals, it's very important that they do so very broadly. Good mission statements are not limiting in the strategies or sectors of the community that may become involved in the project.
Objectives
Objectives refer to specific measurable results for the initiative's broad goals; generally lay out how much of what will be accomplished by when.
There are three basic types:
Behavioral objectives. These objectives look at changing the behaviors of people (what they are doing and saying) and the products (or results) of their behaviors. For example, a neighborhood improvement group might develop an objective around having an increased amount of home repair taking place (the behavior) or of improved housing (the result).
Community-level outcome objectives. These are related to behavioral outcome objectives, but are more focused more on a community level instead of an individual level. For example, the same group might suggest increasing the percentage of decent affordable housing in the community as a community-level outcome objective.
Process objectives. These are the objectives that refer to the implementation of activities necessary to achieve other objectives. For example, the group might adopt a comprehensive plan for improving neighborhood housing.
Strategies
Strategies explain how the initiative will reach its objectives.
Examples of specific strategy types:
Providing information and enhancing skills (e.g., offer skills training in conflict management)
Enhancing services and support (e.g., start a mentoring programs for high-risk youth)
Modify access, barriers, and opportunities (such as offering scholarships to students who would be otherwise unable to attend college)
Change the consequences of efforts (e.g., provide incentives for community members to volunteer)
Modify policies (e.g., change business policies to allow parents and guardians and volunteers to spend more time with young children)
Action Plans
What change will happen; who will do what by when to make it happen. Describes in great detail exactly how strategies will be implemented to accomplish the objectives developed earlier in this process
Action steps are developed for each component of the intervention or (community and systems) changes to be sought. These include:
Action step(s): What will happen
Person(s) responsible: Who will do what
Date to be completed: Timing of each action step
Resources required: Resources and support (both what is needed and what's available )
Barriers or resistance, and a plan to overcome them!
Collaborators: Who else should know about this action
Behavior Driven Design
BDD generally uses these items
Vision
Goals
Capabilities
Features
Stories