Making Spaghetti 🍝
Warning: 🍝 Lotssss of spaghetti metaphors incoming…
I wanted to share some quick thoughts on how solving a problem is like a big bowl of spaghetti where you bring stakeholders along through a complex decision where there are multiple possible ideas or 🍝 “spaghetti strands” to follow. And when there is perhaps not a lot of time to get messy with the spaghetti sauce…
Step 1: Create the sauce
Make sure you are clear on the problem — the sauce — before all this diverging nonsense (aka ideation) starts because:
Solutions depend on the frame of the problem
Step 2: Create and cook the spaghetti
You’re really hungry, so generate as many options and outcomes — spaghetti — as possible. While you’re at it gather all the context — ingredients — you can to better understand what you’re working with. Divergence is all about generating options & creating choices.
Some of the biggest pitfalls in this step? Making sure you have enough options…
