Quick Reads (Under 5 Minutes)

We now treat dev and product as one team. We talk to users, storyboard and develop applications together from start to release.

A trial run story mapping for learning. We’ll do it again with end users if we get approval to work on the app.

We can both read the same document, but have a different understanding of it.” -Jeff Patton

Sony wants news organizations to delete data leaked after hack - CNET

How much patience, humility and determination does it take to work with end users and executives to develop an interactive web app - more.

Allowing exceptions for gifted brilliance, my firm belief is that leadership should be earned through toil at craft.

On my third iteration of paper prototype mainly working with one power user. Time to share with more users…

Prototying export to word feature in Balsamiq and then realized, why am I just building it in Word itself? #pickheadup #doh

#ReasonsWhyAgileFails: 1) Seen as just a means to make developers produce exactly the same low value work they were doing before only faster

#ReasonsWhyAgileFails: 3) Leaders don’t actually remove obstacles or allow the teams to self-organize

#ReasonsWhyAgileFails: 4) people don’t actually do the practices but just rebrand their existing habits “agile”

#ReasonsWhyAgileFails: 2) Focus on scaling up before anyone in the organization has internalized any of the values and practices