Shipping What Matters

Building the right things in the right order — from examples to tests to measured impact.

The Greenbox Story · Shipping What Matters

Behaviour-Driven Development: From Stories to Working Software

Example Maps become stories. Stories become tests. Tests drive code. And in a world where LLMs can write the code, the discovery work matters more than ever -- because the bottleneck isn't implementation any more. It's knowing what to build.

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Teaching Your LLM the Codebase

Tom and Priya are both using LLMs to write code. They're getting different results. Not wrong -- different. CLAUDE.md is how the team teaches the LLM to write code like them.

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Teaching Your LLM the Codebase: CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md

The Greenbox team's actual CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files. What goes in them, how they're structured, and how they shape the code an LLM generates.

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Impact Mapping: Connecting Work to Goals

The Greenbox team is shipping features, but are they the correct ones? Impact Mapping connects engineering work to business goals -- and reveals that the obvious next feature isn't always the important one.

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User Story Mapping: Seeing the Whole

The Greenbox team has a growing backlog of stories but no sense of the whole. User Story Mapping lays out the full user journey, shows the gaps, and makes release planning obvious instead of political.

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Accessibility: A Product Decision, Not a Compliance Tick

A subscriber sends Greenbox an email that changes how they think about the signup flow. It isn't a complaint. It's a question the team didn't know they needed to answer.

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