The Greenbox Story · Series
From Chaos to Clarity
A small team learns to stop building the wrong thing and start understanding the problem first.
The Greenbox Story · From Chaos to Clarity
Customer Discovery: Before the First Line of Code
Maya grew up on a farm outside Margaret River. She left to study computer science, spent a decade in consulting, and came back to Perth with an idea that wouldn't let go: what if the best produce in Western Australia could reach people's doors every week?
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The Greenbox Story · From Chaos to Clarity
Minimum Viable Product: The First Box
Twenty-two people signed up from a flyer at the Margaret River farmers market. The first delivery was a disaster: wrong addresses, wilted spinach, and a box that arrived on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Maya cried in her car. Then she drove to the next address.
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The Greenbox Story · From Chaos to Clarity
Retrospectives: Catching the Wrong Kind of Fast
A small team, a good idea, LLMs generating code at lightning speed, and four weeks of building the wrong thing. The story of the retrospective that caught it, and the single action that changed everything afterwards.
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The Greenbox Story · From Chaos to Clarity
Event Storming: Building Shared Understanding
The Greenbox team covers a wall in sticky notes and discovers they've been building on assumptions. A deep dive into Event Storming, the workshop that gets an entire domain out of one person's head and into shared understanding.
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The Greenbox Story · From Chaos to Clarity
Example Mapping: Making Stories Concrete
Four colours of card, twenty-five minutes, and a vague story becomes something you can actually build. Example Mapping is the bridge between understanding and implementation, and the technique you'll use more than any other.
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The Greenbox Story · From Chaos to Clarity
Sprint Planning: Turning Sticky Notes into Delivery
Walls of sticky notes, a prioritised backlog, concrete examples, and six weeks until the funding deadline. The team has done the discovery. Now they need a rhythm for delivery.
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