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Research Planning

Planning which questions to study, and how, based on the decisions they inform.

What is Research Planning?

Planning which questions to study, and how, based on the decisions they inform.

What you learn

Study only what could change a decision.

When it helps

a decision is coming, and the team has many questions but no plan for them.

Use it at work

  1. List the decisions coming up.
  2. List the open questions.
  3. Link each question to the decision it could change.
  4. Choose a method for each linked question, and drop the rest.

Your output

For each research question this quarter, write the decision it informs. Defer the ones with no decision.

Watch for

Researching everything the team is curious about.

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