200apps · how we work · volume II of V
Discovery & Brief
Understanding the problem before solving it. Observation, person and moment, journey mapping, assumption surfacing. Three brief artifacts — Initiative, Feature, Technical Design — each one a written prediction with a check date.
200apps / NWIRE · 2026
This volume describes the Discovery phase. The team takes the named initiative from Volume I and learns enough about the world to write a brief that makes a falsifiable claim about what will change. The output is three artifacts — Initiative Brief, Feature Brief, Technical Design Brief — each carrying a prediction, a baseline, a target, a check date, a check method, and an owner.