🔗 Test-Driven Development Guided by ZOMBIES

Test-Driven Development Guided by ZOMBIES | Agile Alliance The acronym stands for: Z – Zero O – One M – Many (or More complex) B – Boundary Behaviors I – Interface definition E – Exercise Exceptional behavior S – Simple Scenarios, Simple Solutions

March 15, 2024 · 1 min · 43 words

📺 RoadTrip, MathsJam 2023

Every year I considered presenting this here but it never seemed right presenting you all this unless I’d actually visited everyday of the year. And that would too much work for a 5 min talk. But last year, Adam set a precedent for this kind of thing and I immediately realised what I’d be doing this summer. Lots of time spent visiting Portugal, Italy and France: See also: Downloadable calendar and daily photographs The inspiration talk about visiting all possible height restriction sign in the UK

February 29, 2024 · 1 min · 86 words

📺 A plan is not a strategy

A Plan Is Not a Strategy - YouTube Strategic ≠ Planning What most “strategic planning” is in the world of business has nothing to do with strategy. It’s got the word, but it’s not. It’s a set of activities that the company says it‘s going to do. … but the results of all of those are not going to make the company happy, because they didn’t have a strategy. What’s a strategy?...

February 20, 2024 · 2 min · 366 words

🔗 8 Different Ways to Organize Your Backlog

8 Different Ways to Organize Your Backlog by Anthony Murphy, Visual Workspace for Innovation User Story Maps Backlog as a User Story Map Idea Funnel Backlog Idea Funnel Backlog feeding into a Kanban board Opportunity Backlog Splitting your backlog into two — Opportunity backlog for discovery and Development for delivery. Classes of Work Backlog Divide your backlog into multiple smaller backlogs based on different classes of work. Tree Backlog Tree backlogs are great for complex products with many different feature sets....

February 20, 2024 · 1 min · 136 words

🔗 Core Needs: BICEPS — PALOMA MEDINA

BICEPS — PALOMA MEDINA There are six core needs researchers find are important for humans (both at work and in our personal lives). Each of us have a personal hierarchy for the six however: … Getting to know them is a shortcut to better communication, as well as greater inclusivity at work. Belonging Improvement Choice Equality/ Fairness Predictability Significance See also: Coaching Questions Cheat Sheet - Google Docs Getting to Know Others’ BICEPS Core Needs

February 8, 2024 · 1 min · 75 words

🔗 Simple tips for managing any project

Simple tips for managing any project | by swardley | Jan, 2024 | Medium These questions are my simple tips for managing any project. “Who are the users?” “What are the users’ needs?” “What capabilities do we need to meet those needs?” “What components do those capabilities need?” “How evolved are these components?” “How are we managing these components?”

February 4, 2024 · 1 min · 59 words

📜 Simple tips for managing any project

The distinction between a map and a graph is that in the map, the space has meaning. … Almost everything you’ve ever seen in business that calls itself a map, is instead a graph: mind maps are mind graphs, business process maps are business process graphs, etc. What gives space meaning is the anchor … combined with the position of pieces … and consistency of movement … — Simon Wardley in Simple tips for managing any project

February 4, 2024 · 1 min · 77 words

🔗 Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers

Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers As with anything, these are not absolute truths but born out of my experience. Replace planning time with talking to customers Reduce time spent on UI design; focus on technical component design instead How you think people use your app is different than how they use it Implement account spoofing Page one real estate is critical to a seamless experience Your customer is your most important marketer MVPs are pointless if you’re not going to iterate on them There is no point to having a large backlog because the bigger the backlog, the higher the unvalidated assumptions, and the lower the chance that it creates any customer value....

January 24, 2024 · 2 min · 286 words

🔗 Opportunity cost calculation

Illustation of how distributing work on 4 streams in parallel will delay the end date of all of them, even though it seems like you are making progress in all fronts. Contrast with the benefits of fully focusing on a single stream at a time, and the impact in has on the end date of 3 of the 4 streams, with the 4th one staying the same. Opportunity cost calculation - Google Drawings

January 24, 2024 · 1 min · 73 words

🔗 DevDocs API Documentation

DevDocs API Documentation DevDocs combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface. Fast, offline, and free documentation browser for developers. Search 100+ docs in one web app including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, C, C++, and many more. See also native apps: Dash (paid) for macOs Zeal (free) for Linux and Windows

January 17, 2024 · 1 min · 57 words