What before how.
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What before how.
How could we communicate our message? How much time and effort will it take? How could the solution look and feel? How will this be produced? How will this be maintained? How will this be measured? How will we know if we've succeeded?
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
- Before We Begin Create two documents with your team before your next project: The pre-mortem and The rave Each unit of work we do can be considered a project—the next customer we serve, the product we launch, the call with investors … Imagine that the project fails. Let’s make a list, in advance, of all the things that went wrong. What didn’t work?
Seth Godin • The Song of Significance
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
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So now, before embarking on a new project, I ask myself the first commander’s intent question: ‘What is the purpose behind this?’ And I build my to-do list from there. I’ve found that asking this simple question can have a remarkable effect.