One-Pager

Org Writing Practices of keeping many documents down to 1 page in length, to

• set the bar low enough to have people actually do the writing
• encourage brevity, and hopefully clarity.

There are lots of structures to pick some: SCQA (blech), PR (press release), etc.

But, as with all frameworks, at some point you make your own, or make different formats for different situations.

A format I've been re-using

• situation: simple goal
• complexities, factors, forces (like a Pattern), claims, questions (some answered, some noted as to whether really needs answering, possible risks, etc.)
• if co-writing as a group:
  • Proposals/Options: don't have to be complete or mutually exclusive or anything. Can include lateral thinking.
  • Before meeting I might go this far to get discussion started (and Bias the discussion hahaha), but often end each section with "?" or "other?" to encourage adding to the list
  • No judging yet!
• Pro/Con table for all the serious options (some the group can eliminate right away, even if they were worth considering as a brainfart, etc.
  • also make the Status quo/DoNothing the first option
• Conclusion: the set of Solutions chosen.
  • sometimes the (temporary) conclusion is to spent some time answering some unknown questions/risks: that should probably be time-boxed. Might want to co-create the experiments, so that everyone agrees they are reasonable.