Death By Specification

This talk takes a step back from the toolbox to ask: What are the core benefits a tool should provide? As a project grows up, it has different needs and benefits from differing levels of "discipline". Likewise, people have differing comfort levels for process rigor. Too often we focus on the laundry list of benefits that we might get from a tool without considering the maturity of our project or the composition of the team. We want to build shared understanding without dictating a process that crushes diverse thought and collaboration. This talk proposes examples as a universal way to build shared understanding without tying a team to specific tools or implementations.

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1. Death By Specification @stevejxsn
2. I’m @stevejxsn steve@testdouble.com
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5. @stevejxsn Stage 1
6. @stevejxsn Stage 2
7. @stevejxsn Stage 3
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16. @stevejxsn Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control
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19. @stevejxsn Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
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27. @stevejxsn Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Loose Binding
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32. @stevejxsn Idea Norms Rules Tools Control Project
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42. @stevejxsn Rewrite
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46. @stevejxsn “Legacy”
49. @stevejxsn Who
50. @stevejxsn Who How
51. @stevejxsn Who How What
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53. @stevejxsn Still appropriate for the stage?
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55. @stevejxsn Explorer
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62. @stevejxsn Option 1
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72. Diversity
75. Lost Perspective
 Reduced Group Intelligence
 Lesser performance http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686 http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385.full http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01559.x https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~hbuck1/Week8/GenderDiversity.pdf
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83. @stevejxsn Add
84. @stevejxsn Add Stabilize
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87. @stevejxsn Capability Sustainability
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90. @stevejxsn Who How What When
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92. @stevejxsn Who How What When Why
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94. @stevejxsn Shared Understanding
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96. Focus areas to promote a diverse team
97. @stevejxsn Whole Team • Focused on Value • Clear Communication • T-Shaped People • Poly-pairing • Swarming • Flexible vs Time-Wasting
98. No experts? No roles? No process? Empathy • Get involved in user research • Make something humans can use
99. Radiate http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/
100. No experts? No roles? No process? Question Assumptions • Let’s have a conversation • Oh! This is complicated…
101. Still appropriate for the stage?
102. Still helping us stay together?
103. @stevejxsn
105. The power of examples
106. @stevejxsn Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Abstract Concrete
108. Shared Purpose
110. Shared Purpose
115. Examples
116. Shared Understanding
117. Shared Purpose
118. Connections
119. Shared Story
120. Culture
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122. I’m @stevejxsn steve@testdouble.com Thanks!