Through Jason Yip to Kathy Sierra about using Venn Diagrams rather than hierarchies. Here’s something I gave to a client a year ago showing how collaboration increases success and efficiencies. (The original powerpoint slide animated the growing circles).
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Perhaps our core approach to solving problems is much like a saucier making the perfect jus: reduce and test. This is applied to any part of the information science process — whether it’s strategy, requirements, architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, or lifecycle management. Reduce all along the way: Minimise inputs, activities, and outputs to improve [...]
Last weekend a group of antipodean ThoughtWorks blokes (plus Suzie) crashed our Melbourne office for the inaugural Service Oriented Systems Practice workshop. We had a Saturday full of learning and discussion, the morning sessions being mostly introductory technological concerns, and the afternoon tended towards business problems and commercial practicalities. I myself (as opposed to you [...]
A very funny site: http://www.waterfall2006.com/ Mike Cohn, you’re a comic genius.
Last night at the SyXPAC, my new colleagues at ThoughtWorks facilitated an XP Game in which we used balloons, cards, numbers and die as props. Customer interviews, estimation, story cards, iterations, business value, and velocity were the features of the game. It was a very fun experience and highlighted the fundamentals of planning and implementation. [...]
