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Allen Holub

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Login Is Not A User Story

A periodic reminder that Login is not a user story. (And no, putting it into that ridiculous Connextra format "as a user I want to log in" does not magically transform it into one. Putting it on a ticket doesn't transform it into a story, e...

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The Last Responsible Moment

If you have to write it down, you're collecting the information too early.

The concept is "last responsible moment." Collect the information you need to build something at the last responsible moment.

When people try to justify ba...

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#NoBacklog

A backlog is a collection of work items that you do not have the capacity to build. (If you did have the capacity, you'd just build them.) It's a black hole where work goes to die. The only way to alleviate that logjam is to increase capaci...

20 days ago
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Software Engineering First

In my normal programming work, I use AI tools in a very focused way that I've been told is "wrong," even though I'm more productive, but there we are. I'm not spewing out 20x my previous output, so maybe that's it. I'm an engineer, so when...

2 months ago
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An MVP Is A Test, Not A Product.

Judging by posts I’ve seen lately, it’s time to talk about MVPs—the so-called “Minimum Viable Product.” There’s a lot of misunderstanding of the notion. People take the acronym too literally. There are two definitions of MVP. The earlier on...

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