{"id":681,"date":"2023-05-06T17:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T17:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.de-sanctis.com\/agilegamefactory\/?page_id=681"},"modified":"2023-05-07T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:57:38","slug":"the-dilemma-canvas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.de-sanctis.com\/agilegamefactory\/the-dilemma-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dilemma Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very often, while coaching teams or leaders, but also while designing new games, I face some dilemmas.
\nThis article is collecting some information could help to solve these kind of blocking situations, and in particular it is focused on presenting a canvas you can use to manage these situations, and maybe finding a solution.<\/p>\n

A dilemma is …<\/h2>\n

First lets clarify what a dilemma is: a dilemma (Greek:\u00a0\u03b4\u03af\u03bb\u03b7\u03bc\u03bc\u03b1<\/span><\/span>\u00a0“double\u00a0proposition”) is a\u00a0problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable<\/em> (quoted from wikipedia, link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Special \u201chistorical\u201d references<\/h2>\n

There is a lot of literature on dilemma solution. The best reading I have found is a small book by Clarke “the bottleneck guy” Ching: Corkscrew solutions<\/strong> (link to amazon<\/a>). If you are interested in video introduction, Clarke has been guest ot LADCnet community to present the book, and his session is available on youtube in the LADCnet channel (link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I strongly suggest to watch the section talking about Winston Churchill in WWI (min 11:30 for 20′). Here you can find another framework to work with dilemmas, that actually inspire this article. However one of the outcomes you can find is the introduction of BoB: Best of Both.<\/strong>
\nCorkscrew thinking<\/em> is how Churchill named this approach, where you can analyse a dilemma to find a solution that can leverage the Best of Both (BoB) situations.
\nIt is also interesting to note that, always during WWI, the corkscrew thinking has been applied also to try to disrupt the stuck of the trenches war in the western front. In this case the solution was about opening a second eastern terrial front in Turkey so to defeat the weakest German ally(1), split the german effort in another front (2), and open a logistic connection with Russia (3), a strong British ally. Unfortunately in this case the solution has been a complete failure and it leaded to the disastrous defeat of Gallipoli ( link to youtube video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The new canvas<\/h2>\n

Here the image of the canvas that can be downloaded as PDF here (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Dilemma
\nThe Canvas is a matrix where you have the 2 options in two columns.<\/p>\n

For each of the options you have 4 areas<\/p>\n