Scaffolding
The method underneath all of it, and it took me a long time to get right. Structure that goes up when it helps, holds steady while the real thing takes shape, and comes down afterwards.
- 1goes upwhen it helps
- 2holds steadywhile the real thing takes shape
- 3comes downafterwards
BOSS is that practice as a tool, which is why its sixth principle is humane before viable, and why it gets quieter as real evidence arrives rather than louder.
Where I've practised it
product managementteachingUX designweb developmentagile deliveryLean workshopspermaculture designcommunity architecturehackathon designlarge-scale art
A product manager, a designer, an engineer and a program manager walk into a bar.
The bartender pours one mezcal, because it's me, and it's always mezcal. I've held every one of those jobs for real, which is an odd perch to build from: most people see the work from one seat and spend a career arguing with the other three. From all four it stops looking like four functions and starts looking like one thing being handed around — and every place it gets dropped.
- The Humane Product Canvas — free to take, no install.
- The decisions behind BOSS — each with a falsifier.
- Everyone BOSS learned from — and an open door.