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User Story Mapping for Editorial Teams

User story mapping exercise with editorial and production.

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Collaborative Working Agreements

Teammates setting working agreements to ensure they collaborate on work before, during and after “done”.

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User Story Mapping at The Daily Beast

Our UX designer facilitating Jeff Patton’s approach to user story mapping at The Daily Beast.

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Inspired by Jeff Sutherland at AgileNYC

Saw Jeff Sutherland at agilenyc. His writing and instruction introduced me to agile values. He continues to challenge and inspire.

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Optimizing Practices for Better Outcomes

Your practices should optimize outcomes you want not what you want to avoid. Releases should be easy. Bug management can be hard.

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Starting Meetings Effectively

As a habit, do you start a meeting with questions, a speech or silent?

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Adopting One Week Iterations

Team decided to move to one week iterations. Progress.

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Empowering Cross Functional Teams

Our company is now committed to forming cross functional teams empowered to set and achieve goals.

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Excited for Collaboration Ahead

Thank you EngagingNewsProject. I enjoyed the workshop and look forward to the collaboration.

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The Privilege of Serving Writers

A theme of my career is the privilege of working with and in the service of writers.

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Enhancing Project Cycles Through Collaboration

Our project cycles improve outward like ripples: from quality engineering to collaborative design, to collaboration with stakeholders.

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Building a Collaborative Team at The Daily Beast

My role at The Daily Beast now includes product, design, and user experience. My goal is to build a collaborative, cross-functional team.

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