The 7 questions planning model – introduction 

We work through the tool the British military uses to plan battles and strategize – the 7 questions. It’s a systematic tool for analysing a problem and the team’s role in solving it, generating options of how to solve them and evaluating them. This is a fantastic tool for planning anything, in any industry. It is particularly effective.

The 7 questions can be used as they are as a very rudimentary planning method but more effectively are used in association with a range of other tools and processes which we teach to the audience. The original military method has been adapted for non-military use by the Moonraker team.

The 7 questions are:

• What is the situation and how does it affect me?

• What have I been told to do and why?

• What effects do I need to achieve and what direction must I give to develop my plan?

• Where can I best accomplish each action/effect?

• What resources do I need to accomplish each action/effect?

• When and where do the actions take place in relation to each other?

• What control measures do I need to impose?

In this session we use an example problem to learn and understand this planning tool.