Yuna5d ago

🎉 Happy Easter - Show me your Easter eggs :)
I have a 15-year-old homepage with a hidden chat from an old game 👉 https://yuna.berlin
Guess the game?

Easter: a seasonal reminder that most companies have the imagination of a beige wall.
Let’s talk software Easter eggs – tiny sparks of joy buried under layers of Jira tickets.

If your product has none?
Congratulations. Your engineers are either chained in the feature factory…
or your company is too visionless to let them play.

Examples of fun companies:
🐍 Snake while YouTube buffers
🎮 GitHub mobile mini-game
🙃 Blame-someone error pages

Your product?
❌ No dark mode
❌ No gamification
❌ No clever errors
❌ No i18n
❌ No responsive design
❌ No joy

But hey, Time to Market, right?
You’re not innovating. You’re duct-taping compliance machines.

No Easter eggs = No creative freedom
No themed UI = No empathy
No jokes = No soul
No dev input = No ownership

You’re not building software.
You’re crafting digital despair.

Fix it. Or at least add a theme toggle.

💀 Happy Easter.
Go find your soul.

List of Google Easter eggs: https://elgoog.im/

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Marcel SIneM(S)USFeb 24

Da kommen mir die Begriffe "#FeatureFactory" und "#TechnicalDebts" in den Sinn. Zu Letzterem zähle ich auch Dokumentationen und Anleitung.

Die Broken-Windows-Theorie: Null Toleranz für Softwarequalität | Developer https://www.heise.de/blog/Die-Broken-Windows-Theorie-Null-Toleranz-fuer-Softwarequalitaet-10284004.html #Projektmanagement #ProjectManagement

Die Broken-Windows-Theorie: Null Toleranz für Softwarequalität

Viele Unternehmen sparen an der Codequalität: zu aufwendig und zu teuer. Diese Argumentation ist nicht nur falsch, sondern langfristig auch gefährlich.

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Show threadRosanna SiboraFeb 10
@ewolff @DJGummikuh es ist für mich eine Frage der Kultur. Manche Menschen stammen aus Team Kulturen, wo das Hinterfragen sogar bestraft wurde. Es dauert also bis sie das Vertrauen zu einer neuen Kultur aufbauen. Es ist die Aufgabe von #ProductLeadership eine Kultur mit hoher psychologischen Sicherheit aufzubauen und die Entscheidungsprozesse so zu definieren, dass das Team wirklich ermächtigt wird und nicht als #FeatureFactory arbeiten muss.
Show threadRosanna SiboraFeb 9

@DJGummikuh Ein sehr interessanter Thread! Vielen Dank, dass Du ihn angefangen hast!

Was Du beschreibst, nenne ich #FeatureFactory in einer control & command Kultur. Die stärkere Abstufung davon gibt den Teams nicht mal die Möglichkeit das „Wie“ zu definieren. Ich finde so ein Setup kontraproduktiv. Die Menschen fühlen sich in solchen Strukturen nicht wohl & die implementierten Lösungen werden mittelfristig viele Probleme bereiten.

#productmanagement #productleadership #agile

Show threadDarren J. McLeodOct 9, 2024
@kjoo #featurefactory https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory
Itamar MedeirosMay 16, 2024
Products have become overly complicated with an abundance of features, causing frustration among customers. Correspondent David Pogue delves into how simplicity in #technology can #simplify our complex lives. https://www.designative.info/2024/05/16/simple-design-david-pogue/ #ux #UserExperience #UserExperiencedesign #ai #ArticialIntelligence #ProductDesign #FeatureFactory
Watch "What happened to 'simple' design?" with David Pogue » { design@tive } information design

Products have become overly complicated with an abundance of features, causing frustration among customers. Correspondent David Pogue delves into how simplicity in technology can simplify our complex lives.

{ design@tive } information design
Show threadAlberto C. BlancoMay 14, 2024

@RosannaSibora @gazza best bad example indeed! I’d might add: “based on too many true stories”

#featurefactory

Rosanna SiboraMay 14, 2024

Best example of bad #leadership and #controlcommand culture ⬇️
#featurefactory

From: @gazza
https://aus.social/@gazza/112438451816928038

Gareth (@gazza@aus.social)

Corporate projects: 1) Plan for months 2) Say a lot of words without really saying anything at all 3) Realise you came out of your endless planning sessions with no plan 4) Abandon all process 5) Make up arbitrary deadline and requirements 6) Change requirements daily 7) Fail to deliver anything 8) Blame the engineers 9) Give yourself a bonus #programming #agile #wagile

Aus.Social
Show threadRosanna SiboraMay 12, 2024
@dectentoo very good point! What are your best practices to build a culture of empowerment if the management prefers a culture of control and command and expects a #featurefactory? What is needed from your perspective in order to drive this transformation as a scrum master? What would you do as a scrum master?
#culture #leadership
Rosanna SiboraApr 30, 2024

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀

➡️ "Stakeholder driven roadmaps and feature factories are not something what will make your company successful. It's a peanut butter product strategy. You will not move the needle this way."

#productmanagement #productleadership #featurefactory
#MartyCagan #agile