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All quick starts

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Development

  • Draw the project’s architecture: Reads the project and draws its parts, grouped by role, and how they depend on each other.
  • Draw a dependency graph: Connects modules to what they use.
  • Draw the database structure: Draws tables or models and the relationships between them.
  • Draw screens and navigation: Draws the screens and how you move between them.
  • List the UI components: Lists the components that make up the screens, by kind.
  • Draw a process flow: Draws the order in which a feature runs, as a flow.
  • Map the impact of a change: Lays out the current state, the changed state, and what’s affected.
  • Organize requirements: Groups the requirements and features of what you’re building.

Design

  • Design a service blueprint: Lays out customer actions and the front- and back-stage systems behind them, stage by stage.
  • Draw a customer journey: Lays out what users do, think, feel, and struggle with, stage by stage.
  • Build a user story map: Arranges features along user activities, in priority rows.
  • Draw a site map: Draws the page hierarchy and links, from the top page down.
  • Design a system architecture: Designs the parts of a system and how they connect.

Research

  • Sort out the points in documents: Reads the documents and separates open questions, decisions, and what’s still undecided.
  • Organize research questions and progress: Lays out questions, hypotheses, tests, and findings, stage by stage.
  • Compare sources and prior work: Lists your sources with the question, method, findings, and relevance of each.
  • Form questions and hypotheses: From a topic, lays out questions, hypotheses, how to test them, and what you need.
  • Build an argument: Arranges evidence, counterarguments, and sources around your main point.
  • Organize experiment and analysis notes: Lays out experiments and analyses as conditions, steps, results, and insights.
  • Outline a piece of writing: Outlines a report, paper, or article with what each section says and its material.
  • Map the terminology: Draws the terms used in this project, what they mean, and how they relate.

Thinking & relationships

  • Group and sort notes: Groups scattered notes by theme and shows what they say and what’s missing.
  • Draw a concept map: Draws the concepts you’re thinking about and how they relate.
  • Map the stakeholders: Draws the people and organizations involved and how they interact.
  • Draw a mind map: Branches out related ideas from a central theme.
  • Analyze problems and causes: Digs into the causes of a problem by asking why, repeatedly.
  • List the issues: Groups the issues worth thinking about for a topic.

Planning & retrospectives

  • Pull decisions and to-dos from meeting notes: Separates decisions, action items, and open topics from meeting notes.
  • Draw a roadmap: Lays out what to do as a plan over time.
  • Break down the work: Breaks a goal into small tasks.
  • Make a Kanban board: Adds To Do, Doing, and Done columns and drafts cards from the project’s TODOs.
  • Run a KPT retrospective: Adds Keep, Problem, and Try columns and drafts from recent records.
  • Identify risks: Arranges possible problems by impact and likelihood.
  • Record decisions: Records decisions, their reasons, and the options not chosen, from boards and documents.