Iulia Raluca

Today's the day! The Software life cycle workshop is happening at 6:30pm GMT this evening. Make sure you sign up via the form by 5pm GMT today to receive your invite link: https://www.iuliaraluca.com/life-cycle-workshop

Key things you will learn from it:
- The full life cycle of a software project which has been used by the most successful organisations that I have worked on, both in the public and private sector
- The biggest mistakes managers make
- What makes each step in the life cycle successful
- What does sustainability mean
- What makes each step in the life cycle sustainable

My credentials
- I have worked with very large organisations such as the UK Government (Crown Commercial Services) and the United Nations (International Fund For Agricultural Development)
- I have worked with very early-stage startups
- I have worked with established public companies
- I have worked in high-scale products in roles in which I had to make tradeoffs about scaling and managing large distributed systems
- I have made both excellent and terrible management decisions

See you there!

3 questions that a team needs to answer to avoid building complex features that the users don’t want:⁣
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1. Are the specifications clear?⁣
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Most times, a feature takes a long time to build and creates frustrations in the team because the specifications are not clear. This creates bottlenecks and friction between UX/BA/Dev/QA.⁣
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2. Have the specifications been defined based on user research?⁣
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User research will highlight the whys and hows of building the specific feature.⁣
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3. How long is it going to take to be built? Has the feature been reduced to the minimum needed to release and test in real life ASAP?⁣
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Users might say something in user research, but it turns out not to be true in real life. That is why building the minimum viable feature and releasing it as soon as possible is still essential.⁣
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Sign up for my free group workshop about the software development life cycle from Wednesday, 21st December, to learn how to build the right thing on time and on budget https://iuliaraluca.com/life-cycle-workshop

Quote I’m pondering this Friday evening.

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Hope you have a beautiful weekend. 🌞