Machine revolt

Who? At this stage, we need to identify all those who will help to influence the goal, contribute to it, or obstruct it. In our example, it will be the Marketing Department and the Forum Moderator. In the customer's opinion, they can change user satisfaction: Here, we can list specific people, department names, market segments, etc. Choose any level of abstraction as long as it is adequate to your project. How? Now we need to identify the impacts that will be made to achieve the goal. For example, the moderator of the forum can try to give answers to questions within 1 minute...

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The first time I read Impact Mapping, I wanted to leave it in the middle. Everything that's written there is too obvious. I found the strength to read it out, but it was a short book with big pictures. As it later turned out, the whole point was that I didn't use all these obvious and simple practices from the book in my work. Sometimes customers wrote their goals in official documents for the project. Sometimes it seemed to me that I already understood the goals of the customer - they are absolutely obvious...

Life stories: Case: Narrowing the vision Release planning is in progress. Product Owner finishes with the words: "...can be sent by mail. I am immediately stopping the discussion because the problem has narrowed down to one solution in one sentence. We stopped and dug up the root of the need. Why send? Why by mail? There are a lot of ways in the world to deliver information to users. As a result, we offered 5 ways to tell our customers about the updates. Tip: Do not let the problem narrow down to one solution...

Mimicking User Stories and tricky Product Owners The sources of button thinking have been dealt with. Now let's figure out what to do with them. Why do we let the Decisions drive? Why don't we throw away superficial ideas? What will prevent us from making our own decisions? User Story as a filter When I thought about filters that didn't miss the button ideas, I remembered User Story. We use stories to form project tasks in everyday practice. The strength of User Story is that they make you describe its value...

This article is an expression of my personal pain. Button decisions ruin my life, I waste my time arguing and justifying it. When we talk to colleagues, customers or users, I use the phrase "button thinking. What do I mean by that term? The current article is a detailed answer to that question. Synonymous with button thinking is "screen thinking" or premature conceptualization. I will expand thinking with buttons on a dozen examples from practice. And here's a story to begin with, which must have happened to everyone...

Interview I won't talk about the psychological component of the interview, just a few tips: Prepare a resume Yeah, you've already sent in your résumés. Still, bring another copy with you. After the interview you can leave your resume, if there is a business card, then with it. Tell us about your goals Feel free to tell us what you want to achieve. Say what you want to achieve without any hints or hints. Tell us about your achievements All this is already described in your resume, but the...

Look for people who can explain to you Here are a few tips on how to find them: Write to those who write articles and books People who write public articles or books will be very happy to get feedback from you. Write them a question or clarification on the article and you will be sure to get an answer. Go to the conference Now in the IT sphere there are more and more conferences and meetings. Only Chelyabinsk has .NETconf, SUNETA, beerconf and others. If you live in Moscow or St. Petersburg, the density of IT conferences per month is very high...

The next academic year at the university is over. Below will be my report on work on IT-specialty. Perhaps the topic of training at the university is close to someone, I will be glad to hear your comments and observations, ideas how to make the best possible. At the moment I have 4 years of experience in teaching in universities. For the first 3 years I was leading the OOP and Programming Technologies at the 4th year at the Department of Informatics at SUSU. I already described this experience in the article "Training of IT-specialists at the university"...

What is the main criterion for career success? How do I get to the desired job if I don't have enough experience? In this article, I tried to answer these and other questions related to the career of an IT professional. First, about my career Now I am the owner and technical director of ByndyuSoft Company, I work as a teacher at the Department of Informatics at SUSU and conduct trainings under the general name of Effective programming. I will give you the profession in the form of a list: Founder...

1. terms of reference for Agile operations The flexible software development manifesto focuses on achieving business value, discarding and reducing the importance of everything that does not bring it closer to business value. In this sense, traditional detailed terms of reference, signed by the customer and the contractor, is often the cause of losses. I wrote about this in detail in the article 12 of the article about the problems with the terms of reference in the IT product. The ToR, like...