Unblock yourself, explore, and find the insights you need to move your story forward — Story Impact Mapping Story Impact Mapping is a planning technique that connects Story Goals to Characters and the Impact they can have on these goals. For each impact, the Story Impact Map explores one or more Scene Events that cause it, including concrete examples of how each event can appear on the page. Four questions: Why? Who? What? How?

A Science Fiction mini-con for pandemic times — This weekend Anne Corlett organised WiFi SciFi, a short-notice science fiction mini-con (see my notes below), with Gareth Powell, Adrian Walker, Patrick Edwards, M R Carey, Jonathan Pinnock, Kim Lakin-Smith, Michael Rowley, Tade Thompson, Kevlin Henney, Anna Chapman, Derek Kunsken, Dave Hutchinson, and Premee Mohamed. They discussed literature in the…

When you do Continuous Delivery you can deploy whenever you want: you made it as easy as possible and you have become very good at it. Everyone in the Engineering and Operations teams knows how to deploy your application to any environment. Product can always see the latest bells and…