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The Transition Tree is a tool conceived in order to give clear instructions.
We start realizing that "as long as we don’t know how to verbalize our intuition, the only thing we can delegate is our confusion." The Transition Tree answers the common questions that we usually ask ourselves when a task is assigned to us.
Why are you asking me to do step X ?
When do I do step X ?
When do I know I have successfully completed a step so I can move to the
next step ?
What is the objective we’re trying to achieve ?
What is the objective of each step ?
Why do step X before step Y ?
How do I know when I have finished ?
Why do you claim that step X will achieve its purpose ?
The Transition Tree
contains the following elements:
The need for the action
The action itself
The explanation for why the action will fulfill the need
The result of the action
Why the next step is needed
This is the repeating structure, as you can see in the following picture:

The five steps must
be repeated until the goal has been achieved.
In order to check the logic of your Transition Tree, you have to read it in the following way
