{"id":608,"date":"2016-04-21T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2016-04-21T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T11:42:43","slug":"how-clear-is-your-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/how-clear-is-your-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"How clear is your concept?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a presentation by Phil Davies (producer of \u2018Peppa Pig\u2019) a while back,\u00a0and one of the things that stuck with me was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the early days of their studio, when they developed many concepts, they would put them to this test: After writing a brief synopsis of the show idea, how easily would the first 52 episode ideas flow?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They found that the &#8216;Peppa&#8217; ideas almost wrote themselves &#8211; which was a good\u00a0indicator of a strong and well defined concept.<\/p>\n<p>The same approach can be used as a litmus test in many other fields as well: How easily can you come up with\u00a0the chapter ideas for your book? Is it easy to\u00a0outline your software project plan? What about the next steps on your carreer path?<\/p>\n<p>If you run into problems there, you might need to clarify your basic concept and goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a presentation by Phil Davies (producer of \u2018Peppa Pig\u2019) a while back,\u00a0and one of the things that stuck with me was this: In the early days of their studio, when they developed many concepts, they would put them to this test: After writing a brief synopsis of the show idea, how easily would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[26,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}