Writing to learn, learning to write

As a Business Analyst at a company operating under the waterfall paradigm, I was trained to do all the analysis up-front, before any code was written. The development team was outsourced, so once our extensive documentation was written and sent over, we would essentially sit and wait for the updated code to be delivered. Once…

I’d like to share the most useful thing I’ve learned in my career so far, which I found through working with the excellent manager I had in my first software role. Knowledge work is problem-solving, not ‘my problem getting solved’. Sitting with a difficult unsolved problem is not the same as being stuck. You certainly…

How often does the phrase MVP crop up? In ‘User Story Mapping’, Jeff Patton offers three definitions, a bad one and two better ones (paraphrased): I think many people already have an idea of what you mean when you say MVP, so I find it useful to ask for clarification when the term is brought…