{"id":249,"date":"2003-07-20T22:16:16","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/07\/20\/the-right-question\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:50:30","slug":"the-right-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/07\/20\/the-right-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The right question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a296'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We miss lots of solutions to problems because we don&#8217;t have the right question. It is the question that is more important than the answer. Jon Udell has a nice example. Also, &#8220;People are often very bad at saying why something works, or what forces act to drive them to a solution, but they typically are very good at saying why something doesn&#8217;t or can&#8217;t work. ..&#8221; <A href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?ForcesFromFailedSolutions\"><FONT color=\"#0000ff\">AlistairCockburn<\/FONT><\/A>. Brainstorming for questions why a solution will not work will lead to better designs.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2003\/07\/17.html#a750'>The right question &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We miss lots of solutions to problems because we don&#8217;t have the right question. It is the question that is more important than the answer. Jon Udell has a nice example. Also, &#8220;People are often very bad at saying why something works, or what forces act to drive them to a solution, but they typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}