10 great questions for decision making
- What’s the story of the problem?
- Why do we want to solve the problem?
- What do we know for sure?
- What are we assuming?
- What don’t we know?
- What’s a similar situation?
- What happens if we do nothing?
- What’s the goal?
- Who are the stakeholders?
- What’s the first step?
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