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Problem Solving

Phase 1: Problem Framing

Questions:

  • What is the actual Problem? ???
  • What are the symptoms vs causes?
  • What constraints exist?
  • What does success mean?
  • What is controllable vs uncontrollable?
  • What are hidden assumptions?
  • the sistem needs improvement? where exactly? measured how? compared to what? under which conditions? for whom?

Phase 2: Decompose

create:

  • actors
  • components/modules
  • constraignts
  • timelines.
  • dependencies
  • incentives.
  • failure modes.
  • independent variables
  • subproblems

Step 3: Explainations

3 causes

3 solutions

confidence estimate

Step 4: Evaluate Falure modes

  • what could go wrang
  • what depends on assumptions

Phase 5: Prioritization

  • bottlenecks
  • leverage points
  • irreversable decisions
  • high information actions
  • rist concentrations

Phase 6: Feedback

  • measurement
  • iteration
  • adaption
Objective
Observations
Assumptions
Constraints
Possible Causes
Incentives
Failure modes
Possible interventions
Expected outcome
Unknowns, what information is missing?
second-order effects
reversible vs irreversable
what would invalidate this?

decision-making

planning

learning

social conflict

productivity

debugging

map actors

goals

constraints

flows

feedback loops

Learn error analysis:

what assumption failed

what signal was ignored

what bias appeard

what would have predicted failure earlier

what else could explain this

what am i missing

what assumptions are hidden?

waht would disconfirm my conclusion?