Fixes are minor annoyances that bug us and hold us back.
Add a label, change the field, move a button to the right, add a new page, clean up the navigation, add in some extra fields, show this as a grid, use a different UI widget, etc, etc.
Fixes are a long list, they are the backlog that drags on forever that you open up and say – “Does this stuff still matter?”
They do, to someone, and they are holding back the success of your project and work.
Approaches are different.
Approaches are how we solve a group of fixes, how we step back and look at all these items and instead of fixing them one by one, we look at them as a whole and say – “maybe we need a different way to do validation”, “why are all of our fields misaligned when someone adds a new one?”, “Should we consistently show multiple records as grids?”
Your approach reduces your ongoing fixes, takes the guesswork out of how to address them, and gives you a template to move forward with them.
You can think up 10 different fixes to 10 different issues, or you can come up with 1 approach to fix 10 issues.
