Fill these out when you start a project. Copy the file every week or two and modify your answers as you learn more and your idea becomes clearer.
- 💡 Key Idea: one clear sharp idea, a reusable insight, useful to the reader
- What is the problem?
- Why is the problem interesting?
- Why isn't the problem solved?
- What is our idea?
- How will the idea work?
- How will we implement the idea?
- How will we evaluate the idea?
- What is the riskiest unanswered question about our idea right now? (Vectoring)
- How do we reduce our risk in that dimension as rapidly as possible?(Velocity)
- How does the idea compare with other approaches?
- Background Terminology
Some of the bullets here are from the excellent How To Write a Great Research Paper [PDF]
Others are from Michael Bernstein's Vectoring and Velocity slides.