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Generating Sacrificial Candidate Solutions
Sacrificial candidate solutions are there for you to explore your customer’s business problem. They are “sacrificial” as they will most likely be discarded after they have served their purpose of discovering and experimenting within the problem space. You keep the knowledge but throw away the candidate.
They are “candidates” because you generate several of them, and test each to see what effect it would have on the problem space. They are “solutions” because they could potentially act as a solution, but their purpose here is to give you a vehicle for learning more about the business problem.
It is important to have multiple candidates. The usual practice is to look for one right answer; find an answer ...
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