Questions to ask as a Manager that can make any idea better

 One of the key responsibilities of an engineering manager/direction/leader in any organization is to ask the right questions. Here is a list of questions to ask to make almost any idea better

1. What does success look like and how to measure/track it reliably ? 
2. How does this tie to the north star/mission/vission ? 
3. Who are we solving for ? 
4. What problem are we solving ?
5. Recursively ask why is this a problem till you find the root cause. Always treat the root cause rather than the symptom. 
6. What makes this challenging ?
7. What is the P50 goal - 50% chance of hitting success and why is this a P50 goal
8. What tradeoffs are we making ? 
9. What is the cost benefit analysis of the tradeoffs ?
10. What are the prioritization principles being used behind these tradeoffs ? 
11. What is the opportunity cost of doing this over something else ? 
12. What ideas are we not able to fund because we are funding this ? 
13. What are the constraints we are operating in and what happens if fundamentally relax/change any of those constraints ? What is the timeline of the change of those constraints.