Hypothesis

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As a... – Twitter user I want to... – have the timeline refresh a couple of seconds after opening the app So that... – the tweet I am half-way through reading is replaced with a more relevant, promoted tweet.

The chief value proposition of a bucket is that it allows you to carry a manageable amount of water. The goal is never to fill it. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Actually the more you fill it the harder it is to carry. So use its capacity wisely.

Why product management is hard (and why good product management matters) 1/15 👇🏾

@opensussex @neil_killick @johncutlefish Indeed, the idea of "Quality Assurance" of finished product being one of the hangovers I've spent a career trying to educate folks out of...

When organisations become disjointed things can fall between the gaps. With no owner, team or visibility it further sinks into limbo. I had a convo w/ someone about an internal tool they desperately need but it's slipped into a gap..it exists, but there's no clear way to get it.

@sonjabl @HypothesisAus Just taking the time to have a chat now and again. Just 5 mins at the start / end of a meeting makes everything so much more human

@aahoogendoorn Kanban within Scrum (or Scrumban) is about improving process flow & thus ability to deliver shippable increments of product in short cycles. Kanban on its own isn't focused on iterative/incremental product development, rather it's a context agnostic process improvement framework.

“Let’s create the ultimate version of what this could be, then scope it down” = shitty walked-back v1 with obvious holes “Let’s build what we *know* we need right now” = correctly-scoped, useful feature

Instead of trying to test private methods, how about pulling out a new class where that private method behavior becomes part of the public API of that class? I often feel like Java developers are afraid to create new classes, when they should be creating them much more freely.

Working on a project now without a laborious PR review process, and it feels like I'm flying.

“Design isn’t a product that designer produce, design is a process that designers facilitate” — @leahbuley

First blog post of 2021! Following on from my lightning talk, here I discuss the benefits of combining behavioural specifications formulated via BDD with e2e testing, along with a simple example. Enjoy! carlyrichmond.com/2021/02/15/mix…

A question came up in a client meeting yesterday: how do we maintain a coherent culture and sense or belonging when everyone is working remotely? Made me wonder, what creates a sense of belonging for you?

@scriptmunkee Coefficient of Variation. Basically divide the standard deviation of the dataset by its mean average. Lower means more predictable, higher more volatile.

@HypothesisAus What is COV? And thanks for adding to the conversation

I need some advice around #Agile and Story Pointing. How do I change the mindset of people saying 1 story point of effort is equal to 1 day of work?

Continuous Deployment NEEDS Continuous Delivery NEEDS Continuous Integration #tuesdaynight #agile #DevOps #thoughtoftheday

@neil_killick Dependencies is one of the biggest factors I think. Waiting for a code review or APIs or final design or final copy etc., especially when dependent on more senior members.

@tottinge @AMidKnight @agroebbe @flowchainsensei And having slack time so the development team can improve their tools and process also enhances productivity. Nearing 100% utilization slows down the system, whether an ethernet cable, a highway, or a software development system.

In the arena of estimating, it's never about 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱. It's about 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 (i.e. taking into account start date, other work, delays, etc.). These are usually nowhere near the same.