Using clarity in key management areas

There are many ways in which driving toward clarity has an impact on project or program execution. We’ll discuss the key management areas to demonstrate how seeking clarity is utilized in each of them.

Planning

Let’s take the original problem statement for why I built the Mercury application as an example for driving thought into plans. This is my personal reason for building the application, not the fictional company’s reasons. In the original iteration of the application on Windows, I had a problem I was trying to solve – I wanted to talk with my colleagues via a chat client but didn’t have the resources or permission for a centralized server. I took the problem statement and looked for solutions that fit the need for no central server and landed on a P2P network. From this initial solution, I then dove into high-level designs, low-level designs, and then implementation. In every step, there was some...