Todd Scanlan
@toddscanlan
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All of human knowledge is contained within these two books.
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User stories are supposed to be unclear. They're anything from a word to a sentence long with no implementation details. (They describe the user's work, not yours.) They are a reminder to have a conversation just before and during implementation. Fill in the details during Sprint
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I recently talked about User Stories on my YouTube channel, and got asked by several people about how I would deal with "Back End Stories", so here is a thread User stories for "Back End" vs User stories for "Front End" a #Thread 1/14
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Strategy ⬇️ OKRs ⬇️ Problem statements ⬇️ Solution hypotheses ⬇️ Experiments ⬇️ Evidence ⬇️ Iteration / course correction ⬇️ Agility ⬇️ Customer value
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Your regular reminder that if you are slicing/splitting a user story and end up with 2-x "smaller" stories, each of which must be implemented to satisfy the original story, you are not actually slicing the story, you are doing work breakdown.
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SAFe contains all the other agile frameworks and is therefor the best framework. #NotMyAgile
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Don’t write your OKRs without involving a UX designer. They are the staunchest advocate for customer behavior goals.
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Don’t write your OKRs without involving a UX designer. They are the staunches advocate for customer behavior goals.
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For every "could that meeting have been an email?" situation there is a "could that 20-deep email thread have been a 10 minute meeting?" situation.
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Worthy Read: The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking by Jeff Patton (@jeffpatton) https://t.co/6aM2lyRZb0
#prodmgmt #ux #engineering
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Setting the Stage for the 1st Mobbing Session: - Start by introducing the concept of Mob Programming - To help guide the discussion on what it means to work together on one thing, you can walk through these slides: https://t.co/kyI1m7VJX8
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There is no such thing as a "Planning Sprint."
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27yo subject matter expert with over 30yrs of work experience 👍
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Who is responsible for what in a product trio? #ContinuousDiscoveryHabits #ProductTrios #prodmgmt #ux #engineers
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Worthy Read: Why It’s Easier to Make Decisions for Someone Else by Evan Polman https://t.co/6BhtzWfnWP
#prodmgmt #ux #engineering
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As a Software Development Manager, if you cannot account for 100% of the allocation of your resources, you are a failure. #NotMyAgile
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As the manager or team lead, make sure you assign all of the tasks to the appropriate individuals at the start of the iteration. It is important that each individual knows what they are accountable for in the iteration. #NotMyAgile
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Don't start with validation research. #IdentifyingHiddenAssumptions #ContinuousDiscoveryHabits #prodmgmt #ux #engineering
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Breaking large stories into small ones is a learnable skill. The problem is not that the process is hard, it's that people who have been steeped in an estimation culture & waterfall big-batch thinking have no idea how to approach narrowing or understanding of why it's important.
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