A standard list of questions to understand the task
About your business
- What do you work on? What earns you money? What’s your greatest strength?
- How does your company work? What helps it grow?
- Where do your clients come from? Which sales channel is the most profitable and efficient?
- Tell us three fun facts about your business
- What problems, tasks, and challenges are you facing right now? What's the main goal of your company today, in the months ahead, this year?
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⚡ We want to clearly see how your business works. It's crucial for us to not only see what you show your clients, but also what you see yourself.
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Main task
- What is the main task facing your company right now?
- What are your plans and goals for the near future?
- What are you planning to achieve? Where do you want to arrive at?
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⚡ It's important for us to understand the useful effect we can have for your company’s tasks. We ask you to describe the task not using smart design words like "design a user-friendly interface" or "develop a new website", but with words of the business: increase sales, minimize losses, debunk myths.
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Potential solution
- What has to be done? What could be the first version of the product?
- How could this task be solved in your opinion? How do you think we can be useful to you?
- Why do you think that it is more effective to improve the website (or another product with our help) and not the sales department or customer support?
- What would you like to do in the first place? What would you do if you only had a month for this task?
- When should the task be done, finished, launched? Why is this date important?
- What will you count as a successful result? How will you assess the project’s success or failure?