GTD and Brainstorming [HD BizBlog 1.2]
Welcome to the third post in the series on using the phases of Natural Planning for plotting out the course of your projects. In the first post we discussed the “Why” of your project, determining the Purpose of what you are trying to accomplish, and the Principles that will guide you.
In the second post we learned about the importance of Outcome Visioning and some tools for brainstorming. In today’s update I will share a list of questions that you can ask your team (or yourself) in order to prompt your thinking and brainstorming sessions.
The following list is available as a PDF for download here (right click and “Save as”).
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- Whose input do we need?
- Whose input could we use?
- Has anything like this been done before?
- What mistakes can we learn from?
- What successes can we learn from?
- What resources do we have?
- What resources might we need?
Executive issues
- How does this relate to the strategic plan?
- How does it relate to other priorities, directions, goals?
- How will this affect our competitive position?
Administration
- Who’s accountable for this project’s success?
- Lines of communication
- Methods of reporting
- What structures do we need?
- What planning is still likely to be required?
- What re-grouping will we need? How often?
- What people do we need?
- Current staffing?
- Hiring?
- Subcontractors?
- Consultants?
- How do we get involvement?
- What skills are required?
- Who needs to know how to do what?
- What training do we need?
- How do we get it?
- What other communication do we need?
- Who needs to be informed as we go along?
- What policies/procedures affected? What needed?
- What about morale? Fun?
- Staffing?
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Original post here: Stephen
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