SME Question Bank — Companion to The Curious Architect Worksheets

The questions that tame the expert in the room.

This 3-page fillable PDF is the interview companion to *The Curious Architect* and its worksheets. Eighteen questions, each mapped to the book chapter and the worksheet tool it feeds — so you walk into the SME meeting knowing exactly what to ask, and walk out with something you can actually build from.

**What's inside:**

- **Diagnose Before You Prescribe (Ch. 2):** is this even a training problem?

- **The 2-Sentence Target (Ch. 7 → Tool 1):** the target, in two sentences or less.

- **The Five Pillars (Ch. 8 → Tool 1):** the 40-Year Driver Trap — what the expert does automatically that a beginner would miss.

- **The Toddler Filter Interrogation (Ch. 9 → Tool 2):** Why? How? What for? What happens if they skip it?

- **Make It Relatable (Ch. 3–4 → Tool 2):** the Potato Problem example, and the Bridge of Prior Knowledge.

- **The Triage Filter (Ch. 6 → Tool 3):** must-know, reference, cut.

- **Prove the Value (Ch. 10–11):** the scenario-first crisis, the Level 2 diagnostic, and the Level 4 business metric.

**Format:** Fillable PDF, 3 pages, 18 fillable fields.

**Use it:** on its own, or with The Curious Architect Worksheets.

**Price:** $12.50