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Dev-Led Tasks

LinkedIn images for the dev-led delivery series.

Slide 1 — Three Months to Three Days — 1080 × 1080

Before/after: the three-month estimate vs the three-day reality

Dev-Led Tasks

3 Months to 3 Days

What happens when you let the developers who use the feature scope the feature.

The estimate

3 months

Research
Design
Planning
Development
Delivery

What happened

3 days

Build
Show
Iterate

Working prototype. Real feedback. Concrete iteration.

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Slide 2 — Diagram Version — 1080 × 1080

Before/after diagram: waterfall vs build-show-iterate cycle

3 Months to 3 Days

The Original 3-Month Plan

Before

User ResearchDesign & MockupsPlanning & SpecsDevelopmentDelivery

3 Months

The 3-Day Approach

After

Build& PrototypeShow& FeedbackIterate& Refine

*Developers were also the users, working with an existing design system

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Slide 3 — Checklist (Post 2: Your Backlog Has Quick Wins Hiding in It) — 1080 × 1080

Three-item checklist for spotting development-led tasks

Development-Led Task?

Three things to check.

Users are known and accessible
Design system covers the patterns
Developers understand the problem

Skip the ceremony. Build it.

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