We Are All Making This Up: Improv Lessons For Developers
summary
Compares stage improv rules to web work and gives seven concrete practices: start with the obvious (treat the ticket as part of the scene and scope before building), use Yes, and to avoid client fights while driving needed research, practice shared memory and quick partner exercises (I love, past-o-clock) to build team trust, prefer safe sandboxes to production for experiments, write docs and code that make future devs look awesome, and treat failure as a data point to iterate.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:48Why improv for developers
- 6:07Seven improv principles for devs
- 10:26Start with the obvious
- 13:59Listen actively and face-to-face
- 16:53Avoid unnecessary conflict
- 19:41Best practices are flexible
- 21:51Make others look good
- 22:53Accept failure as part of process
- 25:23Interactive improv exercises
- 31:45I love exercise debrief
- 32:27Pass the clap exercise
- 34:29Shared memory exercise
- 41:04Summary and resources
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