Trigger Strategy is now Tentacles

When something that starts small becomes bigger and bigger, we can lose sight of what we were trying to do in the first place. We talk through some examples: from workshops, from designing flyers for…

Tom & Corissa talk about how understanding and tackling problems requires more than just a linear approach, like is often inferred through something like the Double Diamond. A bunch of metaphors, rea…

We talk about the good and the bad sides of stress. We tend to treat stress as a negative, but sometimes stress is helpful, and sometimes you want to provoke stress deliberately. But be careful.

Refer…

We explore the story of a classic zombie project: where the team had the evidence they needed to know that a project was doomed, but carried on with it for 6 months anyway. These happen all the time,…

Strap in for some high-quality sleep deprived thinking out loud.

We talk about the standard approach towards vision and strategy in organisations, and we challenge it. With some stories of past triump…

Today, we talk about the appendix, fences, SaaS for lawyers, putting Shoggoth in a box ... and more.

Some links we mentioned:

Why aren't smart people happier and how that relates to well-defined proble…

This one's quite focused on business and building products ... OR IS IT?

In this one we respond to a question that Tom's received from several people recently. We'll call one of them Dave. Dave has a …

This is kind of a follow-up to our previous episode that was recorded before the UX London conference. With the whirlwind of travel and baby-care, this was the first chance Tom & Corissa have really …

Tom saw a discussion on LinkedIn about why Cynefin hasn't caught on in some scenes. One take was that it's the "academic, technical" language that puts people off. Corissa has lots of experience of t…

Spoiler alert: when I shipped an idea in an hour it did not meet the pivot triggers I'd set for the probe. That was one of a whole array of probes we've been putting out into the world here at Trigge…

Of course it makes sense to build only exactly what customers will value – the Minimum Viable Product. Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple in practice, and chasing the MVP dragon leads many a t…

HALF WAY TO DO 100 THING!

One night, Corissa messaged Tom:

"It’s often unhelpful to get trapped in simple stories, but how do you know when to trust your gut? Our instincts aren’t always wrong. And pus…

In SWOT analysis, you list your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

Maybe you love it? Maybe you hate it? We've been in the second camp for a long time, but it was worth revisiting our t…

This one's definitely designer-centric. And it's pretty hard to explain without visuals, but we give it a good go.

Tom talks about the shift that conceptual models enabled for him. When he was a young…

Some constraints are limiting, some are enabling. But what's the difference? What if most constraints are both at the same time? (Depending to some degree on your perspective.) We talk through lots o…