2014 TKR: Quick solve. Systematic problem solving, the minimalist version

Quick solve.  Systematic problem solving, 
the minimalist version
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Tips on how to use a systematic method for solving problems.
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Six main parts

• Target: What is the goal?  How will you know when you are done?
• Resources:  What resources can you use?
• Ideas:   What are the possibilities?
• Choose:   What is the best way?
• Plan: What do you have to get done?
• Troubleshoot:  What do you do when something goes wrong?

• Quick quotes about solutions and the problems that made them

Target

• Target: What is the goal? 
• Quick Quotes about setting goals 
• Draft thinking
• Pratfall prevention: The Deer-in-the-Headlight Model for Problem-Solving

Your first answer will probably not be concrete. It may have value terms like 

• bad
• annoying
• unreasonable

Value terms say how you feel about the situation.  They won’t be of help in fixing reality.  So ask yourself questions: 

• Why do you call it bad or whatever?  
• What change do you want to see?
• What could you (not they) do to get that change? 
• How will you know when you are finished?

If you wonder whether these questions will help you, try them on the next person who complains about a problem.  Be sure to stay out of reach.  Lots of people who complain about problems are more interested in sympathy than solutions.

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Resources

• Experts 
• Family and friends
• Internet 

Ideas

• Ideas:  What are the main options?  
• List a few of the best options.  Don't use you head for what paper can do.
• Quick Quotes about how to get ideas
• Brainstorming, ideation, getting ideas in virtual worlds

Choosing

• Choice:   What is the best way?
• What do you mean by best?  
• Try writing it.  See if you really know.
• Quick Quotes about Choosing

Planning

• Plan: What do you have to do?
• Where do you start?
• What are the first few steps?  Write them.   
• Writing too much trouble?  Stop here.  You aren't going to do them.
• When do you have to get it finished?
• When will you start?
• The Startalittles versus the Putitovs
• How will you know when you are finished?
• Quick Quotes about Planning
• Draft thinking, Optional thinking

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot:  What is not going to work?
• What do you do when something does not work?
• Quick Quotes about trouble-shooting

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