How To Solve It

Question 1

What questions should you answer to see if you understand the problem?

Answer 1

• What are the constraints?
  
  • What are the unknowns?
  • Do you have enough information to be able to solve the problem?
  • What is the data?
  • Do you fully understand what is being asked?

Question 2

What questions do you ask to make a plan to solve the problem? Reminder: This is the step after you understood what the problem is.

Answer 2

• Have you seen this problem before?
  
  • Can you break down this problem into smaller problems and solve his?
  • Can you use a solution from another problem here?
  • Can you rephrase the problem and use that instead?
  • Can you use the unknowns to solve the problem?
  • Can you draw out the problem?

Question 3

What are the high levels steps to solving a problem?

Answer 3

1) Make sure you understand the problem
2) Form a plan
3) Execute

Question 4

Once you have a solution, what can acronym can you use to optimize it?

Answer 4

BUD Optimization - Bottlenecks, Unnecessary work, Duplicate work