Leverage of Space

On my talk at KanDDDinsky conference in 2018 I introduced something called Domain Learning Framework that I came up with and talked about its elements as well.  One of the element is the Domain Quiz. I've tried to explain there what it is but obviously during a talk you cannot spend that much time on the practical things in too much details. Since then I had the pleasure that I got mentioned with this practice by Nick Tune more times in various talks of his. Recently I got questions whether this Domain Quiz thing is documented anywhere at all? And...it is unfortunately not (except my previous domain quizzes at various companies) yet, but that's why I'm writing this up for you now. Because I wanted you to see that you shouldn't be thinking of any difficult assessments here, or hard to fill questionnaires.  What is Domain Quiz? A relative short assessment of people’s current domain knowledge followed by a common evaluation session. And, if you ask me, i...

As I have been in Business Analyst (BA) and Product Owner (PO) positions for a long while, customer focus and feedbacks were always quite important for me. I am working at a company where we, POs can't really talk directly to clients (our end users) - or just once in a while. But luckily there are people at the company whose profession is talking to clients. But we POs obviously always want to be closer to clients, willing to be involved in client meetings as many times as possible, because that makes a lot of sense when it comes to implementing stuff based on client feedbacks. So we want to talk to clients directly, because we think we know the most about our product (as we are the owners of it, right?) so who could be more appropriate than us to talk to the client? Well.. Today a phone call changed my mind...  We have a weekend house and sometimes ago the pipes broke in the wall. We have insurance so I immediately logged this incident online. The insurance's onli...

Let me share an experience from real life where I realized why it is important to focus on the problem and not the solution.. We bought a house recently, but this story is from the time right before we bought it. Probably most of you've already gone through the process of applying to a bank loan in your lives. There is a point at which bank comes and check your house and estimate its value. The amount you can get from the bank depends on this estimated value.  But let me just start at the beginning… We were in a DIY shop looking around for the latest things our builder had asked us to buy. Anyways. Steve told me that we also needed to buy a house number. I was like ok let's look at the house numbers in the proper aisle of the store.  We went there and after a while we managed to pick the numbers and we realized we needed a slash sign as well. So, only three numbers and a slash; however as you probably know you can never find more than three things that match ...