Two numbers that tell you if a project will move
Instinct, with a formula attached. I built a crude test to fix a broken budget process, and it worked. Explaining why it worked has taken rather longer.
Method
How to get to a specific outcome depending on where you start and the resources at hand.
They're selling you a noun
When a way of behaving gets frozen into a thing you can buy, someone has just turned a verb into a noun and put a price on it.
The methodology trap
Methods aren't the problem. A methodology sold as a panacea is.
Knowing the method isn't enough
The 'how' is free now. So why does so much still fall short? This is the idea the whole blog is built on.