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this book is clearly not for everyone... "are all images pencil drawing like the cover? I am really struggling with me to buy it just because of the cover."

anyone here up on Calibre? The new version messes up borders - here's the same book converted from docx a few months ago, and this week. I don't understand...

oh, the changes from the 1st (preview) edition
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Unifying User Stories, Use Cases, and Story Maps: The Power of Verbs, 2nd/Amazon edition (The Simplifying Series) Unifying User Stories, Use Cases, and Story Maps: The Power of Verbs, 2nd/Amazon edition (The Simplifying Series) - Kindle edition by cockburn, alistair. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Unifying User Stories, Use Cases, and Story Maps: The Power of Verbs, 2nd/Amazon edition (The Simplifying Series).

The Unifying book is out!
On Amazon only for the moment, paper and Kindle.
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The Kindle version lets you look farther into the book than the paper version does, so look at it: :)
yippee --- now to find more typos from early readers :)

grrrr just found some of those, too

y'all remember when we used to have collections of cables all different? serial, parallel, who-knows-what to whatever-else?
yeah, I also thought we'd gotten rid of all that.
Now it's A, B, C, iPhone in all combinations and permutations: A-i, A-B, A-C, C-B, C-C, C-i
and a few mysteries mixed in

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book is in motion on Amazon - starting on the epub version :)

I couldn't wait any longer - Both paper and Kindle, will be a day or three to show up - we'll see what transpires.
This was a heavy piece of work and hanging around my neck since I was really unsatisfied with the preview version, happy it is out and moving.

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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

A quick gestalt round-trip of Unifying User Stories, Use Cases and Story Maps | Alistair Cockburn, Writer Get more from Alistair Cockburn, Writer on Patreon

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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Patreon (free read):
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.

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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: Averroës’s Search (original Spanish title La Busca de Averroes) by Jorge Luis Borges
www.pierre-legrand.com/borges-averr...
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. it’s slow work.
how we ADD people slog through long lists.
and it's cold. (Florida)

lol

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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.

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nice interview preamble for Berlin:
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Added 40 pages yesterday :) | Alistair Cockburn, Writer Get more from Alistair Cockburn, Writer on Patreon

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."

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(re)Starting: The book on fine-grained incremental development

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