Any project with a “discovery” phase is destined to fail If you don’t know why you’re doing a project then you shouldn’t be doing it
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A discovery phase should a) develop at its own natural tempo b) exit when there’s the right kind of aha! gear-shift to execution tempo. It’s what’s known as an alap in Indian music. Like a prelude or opening movement in i western, except improv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alap
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also i always understood "discovery" to mean "get a better idea of what the project even *is*" rather than why you're doing it
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@vgr here. High certainty? No discovery. Low certainty? Discovery. When high-certainty work is masquerades as low-certainty work, that's when there's trouble. -
and my axe! I practically live in discovery phase
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Completely agree. My first exit was achieved thanks for a "discovery phase" of 6 months. Sometimes you're trying to attack a problem from multiple angles, takes experimenting.
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Someone's just jelly they lack divine management insight. Makes following so much easier
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Agreed. And a counterpoint to Tiago: Any project that is built on what is already known is a project whose output will look like what already exists.
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In complete agreement with
@vgr. I continue to be confused by@fortelabs definition of "project"> Perhaps it it much further down and at an execution level (how) rather than the discovery of (why) needs to be done. I do agree that this needs to be after the why phaseThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Correct. As usual.
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Agree. Much value comes from properly defining the problem, and aligning key leaders around that. When the aspiration / goal is harder to define, it gets called “discovery” work or strategy work. When target is clear but current reality is hard to assess, it’s “diagnostic” work.
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