Personally, I’ve never found this lean methodology to work for me. I have a bit of a mantra that I’ve found works really well for me: “Put everything on the screen”.
Every feature every variant ever possible configuration and all future potential states. Don’t care about how it looks or how it feels just put it all there. Build out as much of it as possible, as fast as possible, knowing it will be thrown away.
Then, whittle away. Combine, drop, group, reorganize, hide, delete, add. About halfway through this step it becomes clear what I really should have been striving for the whole time—and invariably, it’s a mile away from what I started out to build.
One I have that, then I think step three stays about the same.
This isn’t really a critique of lean development, but after a decade of trying to do things leanly, I’ve just accepted that it’s not how my brain works
Every feature every variant ever possible configuration and all future potential states. Don’t care about how it looks or how it feels just put it all there. Build out as much of it as possible, as fast as possible, knowing it will be thrown away.
Then, whittle away. Combine, drop, group, reorganize, hide, delete, add. About halfway through this step it becomes clear what I really should have been striving for the whole time—and invariably, it’s a mile away from what I started out to build.
One I have that, then I think step three stays about the same.
This isn’t really a critique of lean development, but after a decade of trying to do things leanly, I’ve just accepted that it’s not how my brain works