From Student to Consultant
03 / 28Three operating disciplines for ambiguous work
Week 1 set the expectation that you operate as consultants. Week 2 gives you the disciplines to manage a project no one has fully defined yet.
01Direction
Where are we going?
A defined outcome the sponsor recognizes as valuable.
02Execution
Where should our time go?
Deliberate allocation of scarce team capacity.
03Inquiry
What do we need to understand?
Questions that improve the problem you are solving.
The biggest capstone risk is not laziness. It is effort spent researching, meeting, and producing deliverables that never advance the client's actual objective.