{"id":3246,"date":"2009-10-15T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:30:06","slug":"is-the-enemy-us-or-fate-4-of-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (4 of 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reasoning by Analogy <\/strong><\/p>\n

To reason by analogy; recognize a past experience is similar to the current situation, evaluate what did and didn\u2019t work in the past situation, make a choice about what to do and definitely not do. \u00a0Certainly analogical reasoning differentiates the novice from the grizzled veteran PM, based on the sheer number of stored past experiences.<\/p>\n

For example, if you are defining the scope of a computer server development project and have worked on similar projects, experience will tell you that the printed circuit (PC) boards will require multiple prototypes (\u201cturns\u201d) before a workable version is obtained.\u00a0 Your experience is PC boards always have required multiple iterations, thus multiple turns should be scheduled.\u00a0 On the other hand, your hardware developers may be telling you they expect to nail it on the first round.\u00a0 Do you believe them or your experience?\u00a0 They are telling you one and you\u2019ve never see less than four.\u00a0 This is where the analysis comes to play.<\/p>\n

Use of analogies can be especially powerful when applied in an area unrelated to the past experience.\u00a0 Many times this results in innovation. One technique to foster innovation is having team members with varied backgrounds, thus avoiding groupthink, but this is a team item which we will leave to another time.<\/p>\n

A few words of caution are needed in use of analogies.\u00a0 We tend to focus on similarities and downplay differences.\u00a0 Sometimes we are reluctant to surface and validate the underlying assumption of the two situations.\u00a0 We have to be wary of having a solution in search of a problem.<\/p>\n

Up to this point we have discussed analogies as a positive contributor to the situation; a way to move forward.\u00a0 What happens when our experience fails to provide an analogy?\u00a0 The chances are you have encountered a novel situation where the pattern recognition doesn\u2019t square with past experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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