More whiteboard grillin'

[Insert interesting excuse here about why I have not been blogging :)  ]

A few weeks ago, we were reworking some of the login flow to our online reader at the same time we were changing the overall site design.  Since there are lots of login paths and rules, this is the kind of thing that can end up being a multi-page requirements document in non-agile approaches.

But I only had about seven minutes to get the requirements done (okay, I actually had days to get the requirements done, but I was doing other work - so I only had seven minutes on the day when I actually decided to do something).

So I printed out the relevant pages in the web site, taped them to the whiteboard, and grabbed a marker.  The result looked like this:

The team chatted about it for 10 minutes, pointed out some things I missed, did the work, and tested it.  And it worked!

I have a few more cool stories like this, so hopefully I'll actually get them written up here.  I'm going to try sharing my posts on Facebook, so if you want to add me as a friend, you should be able to see them in my notes.

Have fun,
Brian