If you read it, I’d be interested to know what specific techniques they endorse, and how those differ from the sorts of things LW writes.
The general 4 categories of goals/subgoals Wikipedia lists seem right though. I’ve see people get stuck on 3 without having any idea what the physical problem was (2) and without more than a 1 hr meeting to set a “strategy” (1) to solve the problems that weren’t understood.
In consideration of a vision or direction...
Grasp the current condition.
Define the next target condition.
Move toward that target condition iteratively, which uncovers obstacles that need to be worked on.
I feel that marketing, enterpreneurship, science and many other human activities share a common model of exploring a landscape of potential: you’re trying to reach some maximum without really knowing much more than your immediate surrounding. Backward chaining can work really only when you already have a more accurate map of reality.
I came across the Toyata Kata today at work.
It looks interesting as a way of organising work that you cannot naturally backwards chain towards.
If you read it, I’d be interested to know what specific techniques they endorse, and how those differ from the sorts of things LW writes.
The general 4 categories of goals/subgoals Wikipedia lists seem right though. I’ve see people get stuck on 3 without having any idea what the physical problem was (2) and without more than a 1 hr meeting to set a “strategy” (1) to solve the problems that weren’t understood.
I feel that marketing, enterpreneurship, science and many other human activities share a common model of exploring a landscape of potential: you’re trying to reach some maximum without really knowing much more than your immediate surrounding.
Backward chaining can work really only when you already have a more accurate map of reality.