<aside> 🚀 A playbook by John Gallagher of Joyful Programming

🚧 This is a work in progress. Any questions? Reach out to John.

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<aside> ❓ How to use this playbook

1. Click on the “Duplicate” button at the top right

2. Create a Notion account

3. Start Step 1 - Observe

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• Show me the code!
• Why does this exist?
• Why should we listen to you?

👀  Step 1 - Observe

<aside> 🎯 Goal: Gather enough information to answer statements

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<aside> 📌 Guide: Observing Your App

• Work in your codebase for ~ 6 months

• Spend several weeks on call in a support role

• Take a note of questions that you’d need to deploy extra code to answer

• Journal your thoughts and feelings when fixing defects

• Observe enough to rank these statements (likert scale) </aside>

• 📔  Journal

⁉️ Step 2 - Answer Surveys

<aside> 🎯 Goal: Gather information to create your Playbook

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<aside> 📌 Guide: Tools Survey

• Tool is missing? Create a new option.
• Select multiple if relevant.
• “None” is a valid answer. </aside>

Technology Survey

<aside> 📌 Guide: Culture Survey

• Answer honestly and neutrally - it’s OK to say “Don’t Know”.
• No shame - every team is at a different stage and that’s OK. </aside>

Experiences Survey