What should be your first question when approaching a problem?

Determining Our Target or Final State.

In the last episode we understood the problem by understanding the current AS-IS state.

In this episode, we take our second and penultimate step towards solution determination - by Determining our Target or Final State.

Discovering Problem Context aka The existential dillema

In this episode, we deep dive into discovering the context of the problem i.e. our current state (As Is) state, the ecosystem in which it exists and the function that it performs

What is a Problem and how are problems classified

Before we go into finding solutions to our perceived problems, lets do a deep dive into what a problem is, and more importantly, how to classify different problems. This will serve as the backbone for future episodes where we will deep dive into the different problem classes and attempt to define approaches for each one.

What should be your first question when approaching a problem?

When confronted by a problem statement, we often directly jump into the "How", as in, How do I solve this? This episode jumps into the appropriate sequence of questions you must ask aka the meta-question prior to thinking about solutioning it. More importantly, this podcast shows how it helps.

Analyzing Analysis - Building Frameworks to breakdown problems and optimize them.

We start things with a bang! I am a deep "fan" of the classic framework method of problem analysis. In this episode, we take a high level look at 2 dimensional frameworks and how to build them to analyze your problems.