2 posts tagged with "quadrant"

The meeting asks "who owns this feature?" and the answer is a Venn diagram by hand — drawn on a whiteboard, erased, redrawn, photographed, and lost. Two teams each built a piece of a shared workflow, and "the overlap" is exactly where the bugs and the SQL both landed. A decision framework is only useful while its picture survives the meeting; in Confluence as Mermaid text, it survives.

Quick answer: put decision frameworks in Confluence as Mermaid — venn-beta for set overlap, cynefin-beta for which operating mode a situation needs, quadrantChart for which item goes first — rendered by Mermaid Plus for Confluence. Each framework encodes a decision shape, and text keeps the picture attached to the decision record. This post gives you three copy-paste examples.

The quarter plan is a spreadsheet with thirty rows, color-coded by priority, sorted by a column half the team doesn't trust. The kickoff asks "what are we doing when — and why this first?" and the answer requires parsing three tabs. Planning outputs are shapes: schedules stack as bars, priorities sit on a 2x2, flows bundle as ribbons. The spreadsheet stores them poorly; Mermaid draws them as text.

Quick answer: put the quarter plan in Confluence as Mermaid — gantt for when things happen, quadrantChart for which gets built first, sankey-beta for where the budget goes — rendered by Mermaid Plus for Confluence. Three charts, three planning questions, one editable page. This post gives you three copy-paste examples.