Software is a Conversation

Athens team meet, 2018

Some Conversations...

 

XSweet

Hosting

MicroPubs

Libero

INK

Wax

...

Our SDLC

XSweet

 

1.0 ready in next weeks

New Website

Launch May

Hosting

 

Scalable Deployment

Payment Triggers

All Open Source

Micropubs

 

3 Component Architecture

Ana

Libero

 

Extending xpub into Delivery

Meet Next Week

INK

 

2.0

Rik + Charlie

Wax

 

Land Editoria

Prose Mirror (and others)

...

 

Migrating to PubSweet

Designed New System

Awesome Team

Our SDLC

The Cabbage Tree Method

Wormbase

University of California Press

Erudit

Editoria and Friends

Collabra Psychology Journal

Auckland University of Technology

Substance Consortium

Multiple Publishers

arXiv

...

Our SDLC

Ev. 1: Cabbage Tree Method

Ev. 1 : Cabbage Tree Method

Ev. 2 : CTM + Tweaks and Bugs, Landing

Ev. 1 : Cabbage Tree Method

Ev. 2 : CTM + Tweaks and Bugs, Landing

Ev. 3 : WorkFlow Sprint + CTM + Tweaks and Bugs, Landing

Ev. 3 : WorkFlow Sprint + CTM + Tweaks and Bugs, Landing

Step 1: Assemble Team

Step 2: Map and Optimise

Step 3: Draw

Step 4: Sell

Step 5: Create Docs

Now

• no internal experience
• delegate to one person to work out both process and design
• creation and deciphering of complex flow diagrams
• recreate current workflow
• 'pet' bias
• hard internal sell
• 6 months +

Workflow Sprint

• team + facilitator
• coal face knowledge + experienced insights
• discussion based
• optimise workflow while designing
• automatic buy in
• external UX for wireframes
• designing 'to PubSweet'
• 2 days (max)

Workflow Sprints

Zero to Product Design in 2 Days