Business Analysis – Scrummable

The Death of the Author: Telling Good Stories

Nyamawoo — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:53:17 +0000

The Death of the Author is a postmodernist essay published in 1967 by the French literary critic Roland Barthes. In it, Barthes takes aim at traditional methods of literary interpretation, which take into account the author’s identity and personal, political and historical context in order to interpret and identify meaning within a text in a […]

Gotta catch ’em all: The myth of requirements capture

Nyamawoo — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:21:18 +0000

When Pokémon Go was launched in July 2016 it took the mobile games world by storm. Smashing previous download records, the app leveraged the features of your standard smartphone to provide an excruciatingly simple augmented reality style gaming experience, allowing anybody to become their own Ash Ketchum, running around like a lunatic catching critters. It […]

Making the Mission: Impossible possible

Nyamawoo — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:27:32 +0000

Jack Reacher is pretty fabulous. If anyone reading this has read a Jack Reacher novel, or watched one of the Jack Reacher films, you’ll be aware of the awesomeness of Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher. He’s mainly awesome, in my opinion, because of things like this: See? The man is built like a tank, has the […]

Dunka-chunka-snunka-bunka-Hollyoaks! Or: constructing a user-centered product roadmap

Nyamawoo — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:07:03 +0000

Hands up who loves Hollyoaks?! Yes… I’m aware I may be in the minority here, outside of the scores of teenagers regularly getting their fix of the drama unfolding in the North Westerly town each day post-school. However, as much as the majority of the adult population may dismiss the overly dramatic soap as the […]

F**k you I won’t do what you tell me: the perils of the product roadmap

Nyamawoo — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:43:38 +0000

Who likes following orders? Better yet, who likes following orders blindly? One of the knottiest problems to untangle in the product development lifecycle is that of the product roadmap. Used correctly it can be a valuable tool for communication with stakeholders, and simultaneously an opportunity to allow a product team the autonomy to focus on […]

Silent Grouping: Better than Kevin Spacey

Nyamawoo — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 09:10:31 +0000

Everyone understands the importance of being able to predict the future. And as software teams, we’re asked to do this a lot. Like it or not, there’s any number of stakeholders working with, or affected by, your project, and one of the things they’re going to be particularly concerned about is the delivery date. It’s […]

Making like a mob boss: knowing your problem and how to fix it

Nyamawoo — Sat, 30 May 2015 12:51:16 +0000

Tony Soprano is a badass. He’s the epitome of power, charm, ‘New Joy-sey’ mafioso cool. Under his leadership, the New Jersey family grew in power to the point that it reckoned with the New York mob, which (irrespective of divided opinion on what really happened at the end of season 6) is a pretty impressive […]