A 5-day sprint in 45 minutes Yes, that’s ridiculous. The concept of a five-day sprint is crazy enough, but to attempt it in 45 minutes is just plain nuts. In this series, I wrote about what it was like to participate in the five-day process. After further study, I seized the opportunity to evangelize it to the technical communication community outside of Red Hat. In October, I led a workshop during SpeedCon , an unconference hosted by some of our...
5 Tips for a Successful 5-Day Sprint The Google Ventures five-day sprint process is amazing, but any project can suffer due to human factors. The way we complete tasks, creatively brainstorm, interact with each other, and feel motivated can become pain points in any project. While SPRINT: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days wards off potential challenge points specific to this sprint methodology, here are my additional recommendations: 1. Fall completely off the...
Project Methodologies Go Head-to-head and Walk Away IAR The Meet Cute When we began the Google Ventures 5-Day Sprint Cycle, our team quickly realized that we had to blend it with Red Hat’s Open Decision-Making Framework (ODF). The Sprint process already called for 5 individual customer interviews per sprint. That meant 5 per week to get just enough of a trend to adjust plans for the next sprint. We started with that, which was great, but Red Hat currently has...
Hi, Red Hat Developers! I’m new to the Red Hat Developers blog and wanted to give you a quick introduction before diving into the Innovators Program and how you can use some of the theories and processes in your day to day. I’m a Red Hatter and I specialize in UX and knowledge management for internal support at Red Hat. Basically, I make sure Red Hat employees and the teams that support them get everything they need out of our...
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