🎉 Happy Easter - Show me your Easter eggs :)
I have a 15-year-old homepage with a hidden chat from an old game 👉 https://yuna.berlin
Guess the game?

Easter: a seasonal reminder that most companies have the imagination of a beige wall.
Let’s talk software Easter eggs – tiny sparks of joy buried under layers of Jira tickets.

If your product has none?
Congratulations. Your engineers are either chained in the feature factory…
or your company is too visionless to let them play.

Examples of fun companies:
🐍 Snake while YouTube buffers
🎮 GitHub mobile mini-game
🙃 Blame-someone error pages

Your product?
❌ No dark mode
❌ No gamification
❌ No clever errors
❌ No i18n
❌ No responsive design
❌ No joy

But hey, Time to Market, right?
You’re not innovating. You’re duct-taping compliance machines.

No Easter eggs = No creative freedom
No themed UI = No empathy
No jokes = No soul
No dev input = No ownership

You’re not building software.
You’re crafting digital despair.

Fix it. Or at least add a theme toggle.

💀 Happy Easter.
Go find your soul.

List of Google Easter eggs: https://elgoog.im/

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Hashtags:
#EasterEggs #SoftwareHumor #UXDesign #DevLife #HappyEaster #TechCulture #DarkModeOrDie #EngineerJoy #FeatureFactory #ProductDesign #DeveloperExperience #FunInSoftware #i18n #ResponsiveDesign #Gamification #ErrorPageHumor #OldWeb #RetroGames #DigitalSoul #CreativityInTech #coding #programming

Da kommen mir die Begriffe "#FeatureFactory" und "#TechnicalDebts" in den Sinn. Zu Letzterem zähle ich auch Dokumentationen und Anleitung.

Die Broken-Windows-Theorie: Null Toleranz für Softwarequalität | Developer https://www.heise.de/blog/Die-Broken-Windows-Theorie-Null-Toleranz-fuer-Softwarequalitaet-10284004.html #Projektmanagement #ProjectManagement

@ewolff @DJGummikuh es ist für mich eine Frage der Kultur. Manche Menschen stammen aus Team Kulturen, wo das Hinterfragen sogar bestraft wurde. Es dauert also bis sie das Vertrauen zu einer neuen Kultur aufbauen. Es ist die Aufgabe von #ProductLeadership eine Kultur mit hoher psychologischen Sicherheit aufzubauen und die Entscheidungsprozesse so zu definieren, dass das Team wirklich ermächtigt wird und nicht als #FeatureFactory arbeiten muss.

@DJGummikuh Ein sehr interessanter Thread! Vielen Dank, dass Du ihn angefangen hast!

Was Du beschreibst, nenne ich #FeatureFactory in einer control & command Kultur. Die stärkere Abstufung davon gibt den Teams nicht mal die Möglichkeit das „Wie“ zu definieren. Ich finde so ein Setup kontraproduktiv. Die Menschen fühlen sich in solchen Strukturen nicht wohl & die implementierten Lösungen werden mittelfristig viele Probleme bereiten.

#productmanagement #productleadership #agile

@kjoo #featurefactory https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory

Products have become overly complicated with an abundance of features, causing frustration among customers. Correspondent David Pogue delves into how simplicity in #technology can #simplify our complex lives. https://www.designative.info/2024/05/16/simple-design-david-pogue/ #ux #UserExperience #UserExperiencedesign #ai #ArticialIntelligence #ProductDesign #FeatureFactory

@RosannaSibora @gazza best bad example indeed! I’d might add: “based on too many true stories”

#featurefactory

Best example of bad #leadership and #controlcommand culture ⬇️
#featurefactory

From: @gazza
https://aus.social/@gazza/112438451816928038

@dectentoo very good point! What are your best practices to build a culture of empowerment if the management prefers a culture of control and command and expects a #featurefactory? What is needed from your perspective in order to drive this transformation as a scrum master? What would you do as a scrum master?
#culture #leadership

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀

➡️ "Stakeholder driven roadmaps and feature factories are not something what will make your company successful. It's a peanut butter product strategy. You will not move the needle this way."

#productmanagement #productleadership #featurefactory
#MartyCagan #agile

@dectentoo So true! A team ignoring #techdebt is just another poorly led #featurefactory. An "#agile" feature factory, is still a feature factory.

Such a product will become an unmaintainable monster. We need more education for CEOs & CFOs to see at least the financial drawbacks of such a #productmanagement.

In some companies agile is putting product development at risk. They implement blindly an agile framework, focus on conducting ceremonies and ignore topics like discovery or tech debt.

#featurefactory management trying to push another extremely urgent topic to the roadmap. ;)

#productmanagement #leadership #culture
Pic source: I took it in Miami. #thebetsyorb

@caiodark @devleader @charlesic

There is a huge knowledge gap among business people (I have a MSc in business not tech) when it comes to the understanding of #refactoring value.

On the other hand there is also a huge knowledge gap among business people when it comes to #leadership. ;) otherwise we wouldn’t have had so many #controlandcommand #featurefactory cultures.

I believe in change by education. This is why we need to talk about it A LOT!

You continue to neglect documentation because immediate feature delivery outweighs long-term software understandability and evolution.

#SoftwareArchitecture #Documentation #FeatureFactory #Evolution

Please, do not start your decision making processes or tickets with solutions.

Start your processes describing the problem you want to solve and the expected outcome. Let the team - people who will implement it - define the solution collaboratively.

If you (manager / boss) define the solution and expect the team only to implement it, you are just a #featurefactory and not an empowered, agile team. This is #agile in name only, a superficial one.

Thank you!

#leadership #productmanagement

How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1 https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2023/09/how-product-goals-make-it-easier-to-create-sprint-goals-and-reduce-feature-factories-part-1/ #ProductManagement #FeatureFactory #agile

🏭 FEATURE FACTORY

Start by identifying hidden assumptions → create a story map and add all the assumptions. This is valuable even if you don’t test them, it’ll show you how you think.

#ProductAtHeart #ContinuousDiscovery #FeatureFactory

Your #scrum team feels more like a #featurefactory than a selforganized, crossfunctional bunch of great minds working towards valuable products? Hint: It's a bigger problem which cannot be solved on a team-level.

https://medium.com/serious-scrum/help-im-working-in-a-feature-factory-what-should-i-do-78c66e51bea1

#agile
#Product
#forhire