[Pascal Le Deley]

My question

As the contractor in charge of painting the walls of a facility, you use a new painting tool for the first time. You plan for small-scale painting trials to gain experience and figure out how to best use that new tool; some issues may be uncovered soon enough, too. What is the biggest advantage of this approach ?

A. It has no advantage at all of such a trial-and-error process.

B. It helps incrementally improve how people should use the new painting tool through experimentation and adaptation.

C. It introduces some agility in a predominantly predictive approach.

D. There is no need to waste time reading the new painting tool manufacturer user’s guide.

Princeps question?

What’s the simple, initial question (the princeps) that the given question boils down to?
« When faced with a new tool that we’ll use many times, what could be the biggest advantage to learn how to use it in a small-scale installation rather than learning on the full-scale installation? »

As we are asked for an advantage, let’s pick that one:
B. It helps incrementally improve how people should use the new painting tool through experimentation and adaptation.

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As the contractor in charge of painting the walls of a facility, you use a new painting tool for the first time. You plan for small-scale painting trials to gain experience and figure out how to best use that new tool; some issues may be uncovered soon enough, too. What is the biggest advantage of this approach?

A. It has no advantage at all.
Since you decided to implement this approach, it must have an advantage, and this is anticipation of problems you may later encounter in a larger scale.

B. It helps incrementally improve how people should use the new painting tool through experimentation and adaptation.
OK, this helps anticipate problems you may later encounter in a larger scale. And a PM should anticipate.

C. It introduces some agility in a predominantly predictive approach.
That is a fact, not an advantage.

D. There is no need to read the new painting tool manufacturer user’s guide.
One must always read manufacturers’ users’ guides.

Background

Look in Agile Practice Guide, paragraph 3.1.8. « Predominantly predictive approach with some agile components ».

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