Have you modeled it out?
“Amateurs talk about strategy, professionals talk about logistics.” It’s an old military axiom. It doesn’t mean professionals don’t talk about strategy. It means they know the job is not done until you’ve tackled the logistics.
If you’re going to do this well, you’ll need to start with a model…
Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “Plans are useless, planning is indispensable.” It is in the planning phase that all of the good ideas come under increasing scrutiny.
Have you mapped and modeled what you’re building? Can you see it?
You can’t have a pre-mortem on a direction until you can more clearly see it.
The pre-mortem allows you to discuss failure before it happens.
It’s only then that the real discussion begins.
Are you having the real discussion?


