Anybody have any good tricks you use to “stage” an extended effort? Examples:
Dry runs/rehearsals
Mockups
Putting non-critical scaffolding in place even
Acquiring presentation material (business cards, schwag, suit)
About pages
Signing up for services before they’re needed
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Staging is logically unnecessary, but psychologically valuable out-of-order execution so that a lot of the work-in-progress evolves in a context as close to execution or launch context as possible
Dress the project for the job it wants, not the job it has
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Waterfall planning works to the extent it is about conscious staging
It fails to the extent it’s about creating a false sense of security around uncertainty
Don’t make Gantt charts where there are no actual constraints, do dry runs of launch day and work backwards instead
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Do you think about "staging" as something distinct from "derisking"? In software engineering we talk a lot about "gaining confidence" as a way to frame what you're calling "staging". (staging is a particular step in a code deploy)
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Yeah that’s partly where I got the idea from, though staging in software derives from staging in a general sense. Basically the idea of doing things in the (n-1) environment as much as possible.
Derisking is only one reason to do it
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There needs to be something at stake in the short term, either real or artificially created through social pressure.
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Refactored Staging = Foreplay yeah?...
I'd also include virtue baiting like you did here.
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My theory about why this tweet blew up with so many responses: it ambiguously combines a provocation to virtue-signal with a requirement to actually think for a minute. Reading responses makes you both cringe and curious.
I’m going to call it smart virtue signaling
. twitter.com/vgr/status/978





