{"id":37414,"date":"2019-06-30T06:32:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/?p=37414"},"modified":"2019-06-28T06:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:46:29","slug":"learn-how-to-ask-the-right-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/learn-how-to-ask-the-right-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How to Ask the Right Questions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dev Consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/assafstone\/\">Assaf Stone<\/a> shares how breaking through assumptions can lead to dramatic improvements.\u00a0 Those leaps sometimes comes from asking the most basic, but important questions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37415 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/06\/ask-question-2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/06\/ask-question-2_thumb.png 180w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/06\/ask-question-2_thumb-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>One thing that sets high-performing individuals and teams apart from lower performing teams is experience. Experience is a shortcut. It saves time. It helps you skip the time and effort required to research a particular problem. Experience lets you cut directly to the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Experience allows you to skip the questions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, experience can also give you a false sense of security. You feel secure that you know all of the answers to the relevant questions, that you know the complete context of the problem. You assume that nothing has changed since you have last evaluated the problem space.<\/p>\n<p>That assumption can be wrong, and detrimental to your work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/devmanwalking.com\/2019\/06\/28\/learn-how-to-ask-the-right-questions\/\">Continue reading on Assaf&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you want to change something, never immediately assume that current conditions are immutable. If you\u2019ve never discussed the possibility to change, you cannot know whether others \u2013 your partners, customers, teammates, or managers \u2013 would resist, or the reverse \u2013 enthusiastically gush and support the change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":37416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,22],"tags":[21,3],"class_list":["post-37414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alm","category-devops","tag-devops","tag-team"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>if you want to change something, never immediately assume that current conditions are immutable. If you\u2019ve never discussed the possibility to change, you cannot know whether others \u2013 your partners, customers, teammates, or managers \u2013 would resist, or the reverse \u2013 enthusiastically gush and support the change. <\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}