Good things to read when planning a discovery

Starting a discovery? Here’s a list of things I found helpful.

To help me think about how to plan our discovery, I took some time to read how some other people have approached it.

I found what I read incredibly helpful, so I’m sharing the list in the hope that others might find it helpful too.

Update: the brilliant and generous Discoveries with impact by John Waterworth is a must-read. Suggest starting there and then digging into any of:

• The actual problems to be solved by Kate Tarling
• Setting up a discovery to succeed with a small team by Will Myddelton
• Good questions to kick off a discovery by John Waterworth
• Asking the right questions to frame the problem by Ben Holliday
• How we planned our discovery into fires, floods and community resilience by Harry Trimble
• How to run a discovery for any project (not just digital ones) by Janet Hughes
• Kicking off a new quarter with a product team by Steve Messer
• Taking a collaborative, multidisciplinary team approach by Swapna Mistry
• Service assessments (treasure, dragons and a place to dry your socks) by Philippa Newis
• Discovery at the Ministry of Justice by Scott Colfer
• Discovery stage: exploring the problem by Australian Government Digital Transformation Agency
• And of course How the discovery phase works by GDS