Discover the true need of your project
Deliver Outcomes, not Outputs
I cannot teach anybody
anything. I can only make them
think.-Socrates
Socratic Questioning is a
dialog structured by a series of
questions intended to draw out
answers.
Discover the real need
Gain deeper understanding about
assumptions
Help someone learn something.
Pair up.One person (A) think
of a project.
Person without a project (B) find out about (A)’s project.
Six Types of Questions
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?
Considerations
Person (B) use Socratic Questioning
to find out about Person (A)’s project
If you remember nothing else…
Socratic questioning provides
answers through a series of
questions
14
Discover the true need of
your project in order to
understand the outcome
you want to deliver
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