Challenge Abstraction tool

1. Challenge Abstraction

2. • This tool is used when we already have a general understanding
of the challenge.
• We want to understand the challenge environment or a potential new
challenge that derive from the initial challenge.

4. Canvas
How to read this canvas?
• At the center is the initial challenge.
• At the circumference are the variables that may affect the initial
challenge.
• In between are the potential new challenges.
A potential new challenge integrate the basic of the initial challenge
and the specificity of selected variables.

5. Identify Variables
How to proceed?
• First, we need to discover the variables. These important factors that may
change the challenge scope.
• Once we have define the variables.We can go with the writing of potential
new challenges.
Discovering variables can be a long process you can conduct using tools like
stakeholder interview, observation, qualitative and quantitative analysis.

6. Interview
I suggest that you run rounds of interviews with challenge stakeholders
to understand underlying factors that could affect the challenge scope.
Re-frame you challenge question if needed proposing different
alternatives.
This will help you to validate that the assumed challenge is really at the
origin of dysfunction, alternatively you would have a potential new
challengeto propose.