In software engineering, rubber duck debugging is a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck (wikipedia.org link)
Rubber Duck Debugging: The Psychology of How it Works (thoughtfulcode.com link)
Rubber duck debugging is not limited to debugging coding, it can also be used to debug any processes, including business processes. By forcing yourself to explain everything in detail any process any gaps will become clear as you won’t be able to easily articulate them.
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