More Problem Solving With Tinderbox

More Problem Solving With Tinderbox

Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:10 PM (permalink)

David Straker wrote a wonderful little book almost 10 years ago called Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes. You can read the whole thing on one flight, and it gives a variety of standard tools to use to group and sort ideas. Some of these are common sense, but all of them are useful. You could adapt many of the techniques in this book for use with whiteboard and pens, but the portability and movability of Post-It Notes make these techniques even more powerful and useful.

Of course, Tinderbox is even more useful when thought of in this manner. Using Straker's techniques with a Tinderbox file removes much of the effort and makes everything searchable and reusable. Tinderbox's ability to zoom in and out of containers and boxes also lets you "compartmentalize" various pieces of your problem, all without losing the larger picture. A highly recommended book for Tinderbox (and Post-It Note!) users.