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HOW THE INDUSTRY BROKE THE CONNEXTRA TEMPLATE

from: http://antonymarcano.com/blog/2016/08/how-the-industry-broke-the-connextra-template/ Apples, Oranges and User Stories Read this on medium.com via  ideas.riverglide.com . Imagine you’d never seen an orange or an apple before. Then, imagine you read a few articles showing an image of a shiny, red fruit, saying – “This is an orange, it will help you with your vitamin C deficiency”. It’s a similar shape to the foods you’ve eaten for other vitamin deficiencies so still fits your model. You proceed to eat lots of this red, shiny, crunchy, refreshing fruit and you teach your colleagues the same. Now they’re eating “oranges”… “You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.” After some time, your vitamin C deficiency still hasn’t improved. So everyone says “down with oranges, they don’t work”—including the some of the authors who’s articles you’d read. The problem was that you were eating apples, not oranges. But it’s too late, you, your col...