{"id":1464,"date":"2014-12-14T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2014-12-14T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:09:02","slug":"justinism-this-is-a-carrot-and-goat-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/justinism-this-is-a-carrot-and-goat-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Justinism:  This is a &#8220;carrot and goat&#8221; problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the problem you end up needing to solve, is not the problem you set off to solve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 80&#8217;s there was an adventure game (those of you who played it will recognize the description), where you needed to get in to the castle. \u00a0The castle had a moat with a bridge. \u00a0The bridge had a stubborn goat, that wouldn&#8217;t let you pass. \u00a0So, to get in to the castle, which is the ultimate objective, you have to go find a carrot to feed to the goat, to get the goat off the bridge, so you can cross the bridge, to get in to the castle, to win the game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Rube Goldberg approach to problem solving works well in video games, but is not practical nor effective in the business world. \u00a0Simple processes are usually more reliable and repeatable.<\/p>\n<p>If the objective is in the castle, figure out how to get the carrot, goat, and bridge OFF the critical path.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, maybe whatever is in the castle can be sourced in another way, bypassing the whole problem.<\/p>\n<p>This is my way of saying &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>simplify the problem<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the problem you end up needing to solve, is not the problem you set off to solve. &nbsp; In the 80&#8217;s there was an adventure game (those of you who played it will recognize the description), where you needed to get in to the castle. \u00a0The castle had a moat with a bridge. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justinisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}