6W

The 6W method uses the well-known "who, what, where, when, how and why" and combines them to a total of 36 questions. Each of the listed 6Ws is questioned six times with the same W.

1. What
2. Why
3. Where
4. Who
5. When
6. Which

The idea of asking six questions to analyse a project or problem comes from a poem by the famous poet Rudyard Kipling. However, the original poem mentioned 5Ws and an H. this is the more common approach than the 6Ws.