@totheralistair.bsky.social
Chaotic-good, Lawful-neutral, project witchdoctor. Bard, Dancer, Specialty massage Poet Sits underwater Playful Wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting.
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Today's Patreon progress (free read)
the new recap chapter in Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps. All comments for improvement welcome
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"reading a review, what I see in here is: "The last few pages that I hoped would bring these concepts together"
- OMG : Of course! It doesn't have a closing chapter to recap the book! I need to repeat it at the end!
Time to add a new chapter
thank you, Joe:
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Joe Butson: Worth your time! Thanks for this excerpt
TotherAlistair: Here are details important distinction on Use Cases, User Stories and Story Mapping
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Detailed summary of agile prehistory
If this is how I'm summarized, i'm already happy :)
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Proof-reading paper is so different from screen. I thought I would do "just one more" readthrough on paper to catch whatever mistakes had slipped through.
But reading on paper is just different. Suddenly I'm in a major edit session.
New Patreon post, I just wrote a small chapter: Why? (The executive's version).
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Feeling good about that.
(Part free, part for patrons)
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The Book on Fine-Grained Incremental Development: Getting More From Less
this thing is growing so fast I had to take it out of "The Simplifying Series"!
210 pages. Not so simple, it seems. But hopefully quite complete.
ah: AverroΓ«sβs Search (original Spanish title La Busca de Averroes) by Jorge Luis Borges
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in case you care to read it. Esp the end
A modern Argentinian wrote about a medieval Arab trying to write about Christianity in Spain. He wanted to show that that story was impossible to tell, but he confessed that his story was impossible to tell.
Jorge Luis Borges, but I can't recall the story title just now.
best wishes with yours
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Hope you find it interesting to see the work that goes into these little books, and the thinking behind it.
am going through all the figs for the use case book, have fortunately good quiet mood this morning. itβs slow work.
how we ADD people slog through long lists.
and it's cold. (Florida)
lol
29.10.2025 16:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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The incremental book: how I'm setting up the Elephant Carpaccio chapter.
(Patreon, partially free, partially for sponsors)
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Increments and iterations, 1993 version
Thought I'd drop you this little-known article I wrote in 1993, which is going in the book.
- Incremental means adding;
- Iterative means revising.
nice interview preamble for Berlin:
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in the "what I did yesterday" department ... I added 40 pages to my The Book on Fine-Grained Incremental Development ... (haha lets measure by lines-of-code shall we?)
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gonna do more today
Patreon.
p.p.s. I wonder if I should post a sign that says, "If you are tired of greed and fear running your organization and want more trust and collaboration, give me a call."
27.10.2025 15:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
just put it on Patreon, as I'm doing with everything I write these days: www.patreon.com/posts/quick-...
27.10.2025 15:26 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
latest Patreon note (free):
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(re)Starting: The book on fine-grained incremental development
for those following my Patreon, a small update (free read): www.patreon.com/posts/back-o...
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"Learn early, Learn often."
23.10.2025 15:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I had Chat generate incremental growth for Reversi, didn't like it, made my own, had Chat make use cases, user stories, and use cases from the user stories. The final mini-use cases were the best part.
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Full story on my Patreon... free read for anyone.
why do all the pics of Musashi make him look European?
22.10.2025 21:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
If you speak french. AI from the 1970s... :)
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"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
βAnna, Lindsey Halligan here,β it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
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"βSpeculation is a dangerous business. Itβs no place for amateurs, beginners or little boysβ."
This quote from my father in his book "The Evolution and Eradication of Infectious Diseases"
:))
then again, some people just look really hot no matter what sweatshirts they cover themselves with. It shines through
19.10.2025 20:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
NYT has given up on English words. This is Dutch, also a Scottish dialect pronunciation of "brews". sigh
18.10.2025 13:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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just uploaded the talk I'm giving tomorrow.
Slides in the Patreon, no fee.
