See also: Method

The first design of a work method is that of a procedure to follow to succeed, evoking a Recette of kitchen, a miracle solution. (It is besides this design which the definition of Wikipédia implies: “technical allowing - when it is applied - to make a success of an action. ”) However which vision of work this definition T it implies? The simple implementation of directions for use (“application of a technique”). Perhaps is necessary it to approach work under another angle, and to see the method like an approach of a problem.

Somebody who would act without any method launches in a project (let us take the example of a Dissertation of Philosophie) immediately. He will answer the question expressed in the subject. If it structure not its answer, it will encounter many problems: lack of clarity, repetitions, slips out of the subject, etc And it will undoubtedly finish never its work, discouraged by the difficulty, or then will bâclera it, and the duty will lose all its utility.

The first stage of the method, it is precisely to slow down the dash. To work with method, that starts by not starting. It is necessary to give oneself the time of the reflection. It is initially necessary to take distance compared to its work not to achieve it automatically. It should be realized that nothing is obvious and to put the questions which come naturally, namely “why this work? ”, “which are the Enjeu X? ”, “which is my objective? ”, etc It is necessary to replace this project from the broader point of view, it is necessary to give him a direction .

The method depends much on the number of people engaged in a project. If the perimeter of the project is restricted, if the implied people are very few, the traditional methods can apply. On the other hand, if the perimeter is very broad, implying a great number of people, it will be necessary to employ methods of division of Information. Wikipedia is the example of a method which makes it possible a broad Communauté to share information and to thus succeed, by questions/answers, in pages of discussion and forums, with larger Connaissance.

In short, the traditional analytical methods can be effective in a project of restricted size. On the other hand, the broader programs require methods of the type Group dynamic, with suitable tools of division of Information.

The methods of division of information are very widespread in the Anglo-Saxon world (see: ), but it is French who developed the first operational method allowing to structure the approach of a Control program of Knowledge. The " Method 7D " offer seven great phases going of the Strategy of the project until the pragmatic measurement of the results (return on investment). In simple cases as in SME, these 7 phases offer a framework simple and easy to apply, whereas in a great group, a ministry, a country or an international project, the method goes until proposing a succession of 220 tasks in project management mode. Many traps are presented in practice when it is a question of leading such a project (risks, interculturality, elicitation and pedagogy, context motivationnel, effectiveness of the investments,…) and it is thanks to a methodology that it will be possible not to reinvent the wheel, nor to reproduce the same errors.

Let us take again the example of the pupil vis-a-vis his essay. Most of the time, it will elude all these questions and will be said “in any event, I do not have the choice: it is obligatory! ” But in is this design, which the interest to follow an order blindly to work? Without prospect for direction, there is what to discourage, or to take the party to quickly finish some, even if it means to pass on the details. In the case of the essay of philosophy, it is a question of opening with a personal reflection which largely exceeds the school framework, which corresponds most of the time to an unconscious interrogation which lives us for a long time already. the subject, they are words put on questions up to that point remained Ineffable S.

A proposal for definition: to develop

Group of techniques, questionings, and tools (intellectual tools or materials) which make it possible to rationalize all the spots and/or stages to make to achieve a goal.

See too

• History of the method

• Analysis of the tasks
• Methodology
• Methods (industry)