Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 7th March 2016
Murray Steele
March 11, 2016
8 useful strategies for splitting large user stories - Matt T
http://blog.agilistic.nl/8-useful-strategies-for-splitting-large-user-stories-and-a-cheatsheet/
If you’re struggling to break large user stories down, this article has a few different perspectives to think of, which may help you.
Market Rights? - Claire K
Current #Ruby Permanent Salaries in London. Pls share, pls no steal. #LRUG pic.twitter.com/tfIfLPrU0B
— LøuisЯøЯ LouisRoR (@LouisRoR) March 7, 2016
We do biannual salary reviews to ensure that our developers are paid the going current market rates. I asked Louis for some guidance on this considering the fact that he is placing people like ours in places like theirs. This is the information I was fed but is it actually right?
Fixing janky mobile animations - Tom S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nxiBNxCA4
Paul Lewis takes a quick look into a site that has a off-canvas sidebar, but finds that it has janky mobile animations. Within a few minutes he has diagnosed the problem and fixes it, but it’s great to see his workings along the way.
User Story Mapping - Matt T
http://www.agileproductdesign.com/presentations/user_story_mapping/
In the run up to the Inception Workshop for a new project, it was suggested that we use Story Mapping as a way to structure the generation and prioritisation of User Stories and the Product Backlog. The presentation you can download from this link is an excellent overview and demonstrates a practical way to apply the technique.
GitHub reactions for PRs, issues and comments - Andrew W
https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments
As open-source maintainer it's nice to get feedback about your work but sometimes all the email notifications from people giving a thumbs up can be a bit much, so the news that GitHub has added reactions to PRs, issues and comments comes as a blessed relief for the Rails team I'm sure. The only one they've missed is reactions to commits - how about it GitHub?
Track of the Week - Jack B
I've been ill all week, so I've mostly been confined to my home