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How to Find the Real Need with Socratic Questioning Kent J. McDonald [email protected] @beyondreqs

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How to Find the Real Need with Socratic Questioning

Kent J. McDonald

[email protected]

@beyondreqs

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Discover the true need of your project

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Deliver Outcomes, not Outputs

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I cannot teach anybody

anything. I can only make them

think.-Socrates

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Socratic Questioning is a

dialog structured by a series of

questions intended to draw out

answers.

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Discover the real need

Gain deeper understanding about

assumptions

Help someone learn something.

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Pair up.One person (A) think

of a project.

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Person without a project (B) find out about (A)’s project.

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Six Types of Questions

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Potential series of questions

1. What is the project?

2. When did you realize you needed to do this project?

3. What problem does this project solve?

4. What is the impact to your organization of that problem?

5. How much is that problem costing your organization?

6. How should tomorrow look after we’ve solved this problem?

7. What are the next steps?

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Considerations

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Person (B) use Socratic Questioning

to find out about Person (A)’s project

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If you remember nothing else…

Socratic questioning provides

answers through a series of

questions

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Discover the true need of

your project in order to

understand the outcome

you want to deliver

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Kent J. McDonald

[email protected]

@beyondreqs

www.kbp.media/iiba-feb-2017