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Design Sprints: A Practical Guide For Beginners
Based on the book “Sprint” by Jake Knapp Imagine spending six months building a product, only to discover users don’t want it. It happens more often than anyone likes to admit. A Design Sprint offers a different approach: a five-day process that helps teams solve big problems and test new ideas…
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The Comical Chaos of OKRs in the Office
The OKR That Never Was (A Satire) It was a typical Monday morning in the office. The air was filled with the sound of keyboards clacking and the smell of freshly brewed coffee. But then, Jasmine from HR barged into our daily standup meeting like she had just seen the…
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Transforming Developer Platforms with AI
AI is rapidly transforming developer platforms from static utilities into intelligent systems. Internal developer platforms, such as GitLab, Jira, Jenkins, Nexus, Backstage, Vault, Grafana and Confluence have always operated behind the scenes. Considered plumbing, these tools are viewed as necessary, but often unsexy. AI is about to change that, with…
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Japan Built an Internet So Fast, It Could Download Netflix in a Second
Imagine this. You sit down for a movie. You click Download. And before you can blink, the entire Netflix library is already on your device. Every show. Every film. Every documentary. Done. In a second. Sounds impossible, right? Like some kind of sci-fi fantasy. Well, in a quiet corner of…
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The Power of Storytelling
Storytelling > Product Specs We like to believe that facts drive change.Dashboards, metrics, adoption curves, and defect counts all seem perfectly rational. And yet, every major transformation we’ve lived through tells a different story. Facts tell us what is happening.They rarely tell us what must change next.And they almost never…
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Conquering Your Fear of Flying: Tips for Aviophobia
My Inner Battle With Aviophobia Everything you want is on the other side of fear.— Jack Canfield 02-September-2024 (Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi) Virgin Atlantic Airways VS- 303 | DEL-LHR | Departure time: 03:30, Arrival time: 08:55 on 03 Sep I checked my email notifications one last time, and my heart…
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The Secrets of the Arctic World Archive (AWA)
Preserving knowledge for future generations Envision a secure location deep within a mountain on an isolated island in the Arctic Circle, protected so that it can preserve the world’s most valuable knowledge for centuries, regardless of worldwide catastrophes. No, I am not describing a scene from a Hollywood action flick.…
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Who Owns JIRA-1138? (Definitely Not Me)
Product Management Circus: A Backlog Refinement Satire A Sprint Refinement Satire Sprint: 134 Team: “Agile Avengers” Meeting: Sprint Refinement (a.k.a. “Let’s Pretend We’ll Do This”) Time: 2:00 PM (or whenever the last person remembers to join Zoom) Cast of Characters Scrum Master (Rita): Keeper of the Timebox. Product Owner (Dan):…
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The Fall of Manchester United: A Fan’s Perspective
Manchester United’s fall from glory explained by a fan still recovering from the treble hangover of 1999 I remember 1999 like it was yesterday: Solskjær sliding, Beckham curling, Schmeichel yelling, and trophies multiplying like a Ronaldo stepover. I was in my twenties and became a Manchester United fan that year,…