This is an initial sketch of an Ideation Pipeline my team will be using to help drive the direction of a product we’re working on. The sketch is based on a discussion we had about how we currently get from an idea to delivering on that idea, and how we’d like to do that going forward. While we probably should have done a full on Value Stream Map, we didn’t. And the only excuse I have is that we’re kicking this product off so there isn’t really a set way we do things… not yet anyhow. At...

Hot on the heels of my wildly (in)famous “When Should I Write Tests?” post, I have another fun tidbit about testing to share with you. Though, to be honest, I found this gem via my buddy Scott C Reynolds, so I can’t take all – actually, I can’t take any – of the credit. Anyhow, Scott posted a great little snippet of code that does a couple of things: Shows the gist of Context/Specification style specs in use. Ensures we won’t need John Connor’s help after all. ...