Architects need to ask the right questions: Strategic Questioning
Architects are at the edge of business and IT and hence to create the best solution it is crucial to ask the right questions to business and IT. Those magical questions (and listening) that really make a difference and fire-up that strategic, creative thinking. Below an approach for Strategic Questioning:
STRATEGIC QUESTIONING is the skill of asking the questions that will make a difference. It is a powerful tool for personal and social change. It is a tool for giving service to any issue ... as it helps people discover their own strategies and ideas for change.
STRATEGIC QUESTIONING involves a special type of question and a special type of listening. We can use strategic questioning to help friends, co-workers, political allies and adversaries to create their own solutions to any problem.
STRATEGIC QUESTIONING is a process that usually changes the listener as well as the person being questioned. A strategic question opens both of us to another point of view. It invites our ideas to shift and take into account of new information and new possibilities. And it invokes that special creativity that can forge fresh strategies for resolving challenges.