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Business Questions |
For Reusability |
Do you have a business case and does it answer these five (5) questions?
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1) do we have one?
2) can we use it? 3) what is our bottom line? A) ideal, B) contingent upon X happening, or C) unknown (pause until we know) For Technical Questions
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What is it, What is that, Why is it important? |
CTR questions
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- What is it?
- Why do I need this?
- How will this work?
- How will this impact what I am doing now?
- Devil's Advocate - Why should I avoid this?
Boneyard
Zachman 6
Motivational Questioning 1) why are you doing this? 2) why is that better? 3) why can't you think of anything better? What is a useful index of information? Why is it important to find information? Is there some information that I am missing? How does that impact me? What do you think? What do you know? What can you prove? What is the source of this question? What is this question related to? What is unfocused precision? What questions do intelligent people ask? What is problem re-framing? What problem are you trying to solve and is it the right one? What is the risk of framing a problem wrong? How is problem framing related to solution context? |
Military Paradigm
Model: Rob's three (3) questions
major questions we can ask ourselves to help drive design decisions
Technical bonafides
What's your stake in the story?
Is this getting through the way I mean it? Am I being misunderstood? |
Who are you? Who are you for? What do you stand for?
Five why's (*5)
What are our objectives?
What long term interested are we pursuing?
How will our strategies be different?
What price are we willing to pay?
Hedgehog
1) what do you love to do? (Activities with my children and kayak)
2) what are you great at? (Scrap booking & iteratively organizing digital content into something meaningful)
3) how will you serve? (Make meaningful digital information accessible to people with disabilities)
Five why's (*5)
What are our objectives?
What long term interested are we pursuing?
How will our strategies be different?
What price are we willing to pay?
Hedgehog
1) what do you love to do? (Activities with my children and kayak)
2) what are you great at? (Scrap booking & iteratively organizing digital content into something meaningful)
3) how will you serve? (Make meaningful digital information accessible to people with disabilities)
It's Complicated
Things that I can't articulate
- What makes answering a simple question complicated?
- Is there something you talk about, but don't tweet about?
- Is there something you tweet about, but don't talk about?
- Are you organizing thoughts that you haven't communicated?
- Do you have thoughts that you haven't communicated well?
- Do you have visualized thoughts (napkin drawing, whiteboard, or video narration)?
- Do you have content (notes, email, or audio recording)?
- Do you have a plain and organized structure (bullet points, PowerPoint, or reusable communication model)?