Frame
Constraint Mapping
Listing a project’s limits and checking which are real and which were simply inherited.
What is Constraint Mapping?
Listing a project’s limits and checking which are real and which were simply inherited.
What you learn
Ask who set each limit and why before designing around it.
When it helps
the team keeps saying “we can’t”, and nobody remembers why.
Use it at work
- List every limit on the project.
- Next to each, write who set it and why.
- Ask the owner about any limit without a reason.
- Design around the real limits, and change or drop the rest.
Your output
List the limits on your project. Next to each, write who set it and why. Question every limit without an answer.
Watch for
Treating every stated limit as fixed.
Related practices
- Problem Framing
- Implementation Partnership
- Decision Design
- Capacity Planning
- Automation Allocation
- Design Debt
- TRIZ Contradictions
Sources
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