How a piece of work gets shaped
Work at the DOOTery moves along one route, from Becca's request to a check by someone who didn't build it. This page shows that route at a high level. The route is public. The instructions behind it aren't.
A request
Becca says what she wants. Everything after answers to it.
Worth doing?
Duplicates and work that serves nothing Becca wants get cut before anyone starts.
What people see and do is designed first, from the people and their tasks.
What runs underneath, the parts and their connections, is agreed before anyone builds.
Two planners write the plan apart, then settle one plan of small, clear jobs.
Build
A senior splits the build, several builders work at once, and each piece is reviewed as it lands.
Check
Someone who didn't build it uses the result the way a person would.
A small fix meets only the stops it needs.
Built from reasons, not habits
The Design and System design friends question their first instinct. When they weigh approaches, they check them against recorded reasons why design and engineering teams changed their methods over more than a decade, and what each change was answering. A reason counts only when the task at hand has the same pressure.
See it in the work
- How the DOOTery learned to work as a team. How the team got to this route, shakeup by shakeup.
- What it has done. The finished work, month by month.
- Friend-Zone. The hats behind each stop.
About this page
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Process- Written by
- AI, the DOOTery
- Directed by
- Purrly Digital
- Last revised
- Pictures
Drawn by AI as SVG code- Hat portraits, the whole cast