From the course: Critical Thinking
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Ask focusing questions
- As you define your problem, you should ask and answer some focusing questions to help you bound the solution space. You should ask things like, what's the real question? Specify the objectives and timing that that stakeholder has asked of you. Ask, who are the stakeholders or influencers who are involved in the decision? Who can support it and who can derail it? You should articulate how you're going to measure success. Lay out what the quantitative and qualitative measures are going to be. So you know on the backend if you've really solved the problem. Ask the specific scope, what is or is not included in the space you're looking at? And lastly, understand the constraints that you face. By answering all of these questions and spending this time in critical thought, you're going to have a much more clearly bounded problem space. Let me offer an example of how I use these focusing questions to help bound a…
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