Extracted from an email: "Strategic does not necessarily equate to experimental."
Certainly some strategic work will be experimental, but it seems like not all of it will be. Should we soften that claim in the definition?
Topic on Talk:Team Practices Group/Tracking core and strategic work
Lila replied later in that platypus thread: "And yes, we may run experiments in within either bucket, with the difference that those experiments in Core are focused on optimization and in Strategic on growth."
In our current draft for core work (phab:T124041), we have a goal that is core (Community engagement across all stages of WMF product development process) but one of the two related initiatives is rather experimental (Consolidation of a participative product development process).
We have been discussing whether a core goal may have an experimental initiative related. I think so. When linear improvements are not enough, optimizing core work sometimes requires experimentation.