Lesson 02 – Hello SketchFlow

Last week my lecture contained only boring PowerPoint slides. As compensation we are now going to be creative!

In most cases developers and customers speak a completely equal language.* Every party has a clear vision of the software in mind. It is so clear, that even a boring requirement specification is completely unnecessary. Don’t waste time, start coding! NOT! ;-)

But luck is on our side. We have a lot of free and cool tools that save us a lot of pain. One of them is Microsoft Blend 4 with SketchFlow. (SketchFlow is only available in the Ultimate Edition!) Basically I will teach you exactly the same as the smart guy in the video linked below.

You can download the video on the original site.
Please don’t forget to install Blend!

Update: I prepered a solution for you at Google Code. Please use it only if you really struggle with Blend!

* Trivia:
In a morning meeting my boss once said: “Sh*t. We have to remove that widget from the landing page. Number one priority! Go, go, go!”
In the evening he called me: “The widget is still on the website! I told you to remove it!!”
So my honest answer was: “Oh. Sorry. I created a user story and a task for that. Fixed the problem, checked in. All unit tests are still running. Documented it. But I haven’t thought about deploying it to the live system…”