Why would we even need something like user stories? Based on my view this is an intermediate state of information between long and boring business summaries and technical tickets. In my cycle of articles about IT management we spoke about SCRUM and we discussed about process, responsibilities and etc. but we didn’t discuss actual challenges which we are solving. There are users, users have needs, based on that needs certain services and products are being developed. And to deliver solution to user we first need to write down an idea and transfer this idea to developers. Since modern software development is complex and its complexity has many reasons, one of the common challenges is to solve information complexity and one of the methods is to break down big peace of functionality into user stories.

“Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.” Gene Kim The Phoenix Project

Often as managers, we try to be a great example, lead by example and work as hard as we can and this is related to any leaders, team leads, managers, CEOs and etc. All of this is nice, but will never lead to great results, as a single person you cannot impact the results of the whole company, no matter how great, fast, experienced you are. There is always a team and more than one person behind success. I stumbled upon one concept which is called “multiplier” from the same name book “Multipliers”, that was eye opening for me. Instead of pushing yourself you must educate and mentor others, as you will work as the “multiplier” and bring much more value towards the company/business/team/department.

I was inspired about SCRUM methodology back in 2018 when for the first time I read a book named “The SCRUM Field Guide” which written by Mitch Lacey. Back in the day I used to be an engineer and I could not realize all benefits of adapting this methodology and was blindly following what team lead was saying. Nowadays when I’m in charge of success of more than 20 people, that’s where I had to come back to this book and write down all important notes which I would like to share. As well as to share how and where scrum methodology and agile principles started.

General guidelines

✅ As the best practice we use the most affordable and efficient type of transportation and stays. The price of the stay and travel must be free or the provider has to pay our company for promoting them on tiktok. For those employees who didn’t reach 5 mln. subscribers and not able to get a bargain with the provider, the price of the stay and transportation must be covered by the employee. 

It’s finally released 🎉 Use for social media: #MiniSpaceJourney

“Mini Space Journey” is an innovative game for the Apple Watch that takes players on a thrilling adventure through outer space. Instead of using the watch’s accelerometer and gyroscope, the game utilizes the unique crown button on the side of the watch to navigate the player’s spacecraft. This makes for a unique and interactive gaming experience that is not found in other Apple Watch games.