These are some terms you might hear me use. I add to this periodically, and welcome feedback if I use unfamiliar terms.
Shorthand for acknowledge.
DRI stands for Directly Responsible Individual: I really like this concept. That person need not do all the work, but they are responsible for delegating and/or understanding the work for which they are assigned as the DRI. Taken from .
For more background see: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/directly-responsible-individuals/
First principles starts with axioms or truths that we must believe, and works from those to identify/explore possible solutions to complex problems. Rather than starting with what exists today, we might explore solutions based on if we started building this entirely from scratch.
Shorthand for looks good to me.
MECE principle: "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive." Are the options mutually exclusive, or does overlap exist? Are the proposed options collectively exhaustive, or merely representative of some possibilities?
Words are hard, good product management helps synthesize and distill complex ideas for their team: https://trashpanda.cc/2021/09/nouns-adjectives-verbs-and-your-minimum-viable-product/
It's usually helpful to talk things through. In the absence of a forum for this, just saying it out loud to others can be helpful to improve thoughtfulness and clarity.
SBAR stands for Situation-Background-Analysis-Recommendation: SBAR, a tool for communicating impactful decisions concisely and effectively.
See sbar template.
SWAG stands for Scientific Wild A** Guess. This should be an informed estimate, but...slightly imprecise!
Approval or agreement. In less formal circumstances (eg. chat) I often drop +++ as a quick agreement.
- Is a decision a ‘one way door’ or a ‘two way door’? aka How easily can we revert this change? (Reversible and Irreversible Decisions)
- Are we ‘bike shedding’ or ‘yak shaving’? (defintions)