As far as civil defence goes, we have always maintained a high level of preparedness, our bright yellow plastic water containers shine out from under out pods. recently however, the devastating earthquake in Christchurch has made us re-evaluate our own readiness for a natural disaster.
Previously we had enough food [...] Continue Reading…
Jelly at Boost is casual co-working in Wellington. This post explains why Boost opens its doors to independent workers each week for free. [...] Continue Reading…
On Friday I ran a workshop for one of our clients on the theme ‘Making good decisions about using social media’.
There were a lot of enthusiastic beginners in the group, so the first half of the workshop was about the different tools/platforms that you can use:
For listening (for teams [...] Continue Reading…
Welcome back!
So far in this series I’ve covered
an introduction to user stories
adding acceptance criteria to user stories
user stories and the development process
Today’s post is about how you can use user stories (and other tactics) to engage stakeholders in an Agile project.
It might sounds like user stories are being proposed [...] Continue Reading…
Welcome back! So far in this mini-series I’ve covered the basics of user stories, and added some detail in the shape of acceptance criteria. Today’s post is about the INVEST model for writing user stories, but for that to make sense you need to know how an Agile project [...] Continue Reading…
Last week I described the bones of the user story. Briefly, a user story is a description of an objective a person should be able to achieve when using your website/application/software, written in the following format
An an [actor] I want [action] so that [achievement]
For example:
As a [...] Continue Reading…
My two favourite things about Agile development:
Communication
User stories.
One of the things I love about user stories (don’t worry, I’ll get to a definition soon) is that they’re a great technique to help people who aren’t used to commissioning websites or applications communicate their requirements.
I had a chat recently [...] Continue Reading…
I’m currently writing new copy for the Boost website, which will be relaunching soonish with an updated look and a lot of new information. This has got me thinking about what’s changed about writing for the web in the 5 years that I’ve been doing this, and what’s stayed [...] Continue Reading…
It’s not too late to register for the Engage Your Community unconference, being held in central Wellington this Saturday, 21 August.
The unconference is a free day-long learning and skill sharing event for people working or volunteering as webmasters in community groups, volunteer organisations and not-for-profits. Industry professionals are invited [...] Continue Reading…
Content. It’s the red-headed stepchild of any website project. The thing that 9 times out of 10 blows the time-line out of the water. The task that only ever seems to get bigger, not smaller. Why is this?
Perhaps it’s because content development is often spread over a number of [...] Continue Reading…
