- Say “what X” the customer wants you to do.
- But if you look closely, it is method, not [Objective.
- Customers are not verbalizing their objectives properly.
- What makes you happy about doing X?”
- What problem do you want to solve by doing X?”
- We need to get this out of them.
- Do not proceed with development while the method has become an objective.
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