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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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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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 first part of a series on getting from discovery to delivery without wasting everyone's time.
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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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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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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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