Onion Peeling Technique - Tip for Troubleshooting Methodolgy

Onion Peeling Technique

Let’s learn from the peeling of Onion.

“Proceed peeling away onion layers. As you proceed to the center of the onion, they will go from dark, papery sheaves to lighter colored, more flexible pieces. Continue in this manner until you reach a somewhat sticky film on the light colored onion. This is the last layer that you need to remove. You can rub at the edges or get under this layer with the edge of your knife in order to get a hand- hold. Peel this final layer away from the onion and your onion is ready for use”.

This onion peeling technique is very good for troubleshooting. Every projects has challenges, issues, defects, problems, you name it. However, as project manager, we need to see what are the real challenges, issues, defects, and problems in the genuine form, as usually some of them will represent tip of iceberg.

The Onion peeling technique can manifest by asking smart questions several times, discussion with team member several times, looking at the patterns periodically, observing the graph from time to time; bottom line we need to find the final layer, the genuine problem and as we all very well aware, finding the genuine problem is already 50% of the solution.

So let’s peel the onion however for project management, one no needs to cry J.

Good luck