Today's web-based applications go live every few weeks. Agile methodologies like Extreme Programming and Scrum, focus on short development cycles, accelerated feedback from users and customers, and incremental delivery. On the technical side these approaches can bring discipline and predictability to short release cycles. But can these incremental methodologies incorporate successful design techniques? Using case studies and examples from their own project experience, Alex and Leslie will discuss how to integrate design and Agile, discussing what works, what problems arise, and most importantly, the changes in mindset that are necessary on an integrated Agile design/implementation team.

1. Are Agile Projects Doomed to Half-Baked Design? Alex Chaffee [email_address] Leslie Chicoine [email_address]

2. Introduction What is Design What is Coding XP and Agile Programming Agile Design: How to merge Agile processes and design principles Q&A

3. Web 2.0 = ?

4. Web 2.0 = play

5. Web 2.0 = play faster

6. Design Methods Design

7. Design Methods Strategy Graphics User Centered Front End Coding User Interface Information Architecture Interactive Interaction Research User Flow Concepts Design

8. Design Methods I design.

9. Design Methods Research Thought Modeling Communication Play Re-design I design.

10. Coding Methods Coding

11. Coding Methods Model-View-Controller Databases JavaScript Java Debugging CSS Version Control IDEs Research Coding Ruby Design Patterns UML Diagrams Deploying Perl Object-Oriented Design Best Practices Scripting

12. Coding Methods I code.

13. Coding Methods I code. Research Thought Modeling Communication Play Re-design

14. The Big Idea “ Design is finding the problem, not the solution.” —Leslie Chicoine

20. XP Meets Waterfall Design Extreme Programming Waterfall Design

21. XP Meets Waterfall Design Extreme Programming Waterfall Design

22. XP Meets Waterfall Design

24. Agile Design Agile Design

25. Agile Design “ Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower

26. Agile Design Embracing change Communal design ownership Evolving solutions

27. Agile Design

28. Agile Design

29. Agile Design “ Make it OK for people to challenge an idea or two, the good ideas can withstand it and the weaker ideas fall away and make room for something [better].” -Brad Bird, Writer/Director of the Incredibles

30. Agile Design “ He’ll take good ideas from wherever they come from.” “He asks you, he wants to know what you think.”

31. Scales of Design Scales of Design

32. Scales of Design Concept Business Goals User Tasks / Motivations Site Flow & Wayfinding Supporting Systems Navigation Widgets Global Styles Language Buttons Graphics Fonts Large Scale Small Scale

33. Scales of Design The Large Scale is tested in the Small Scale. The Small Scale reveals if the Large Scale ideas are solid.

34. Scales of Design Play faster.

35. Scales of Design Play faster.

36. Scales of Design Play faster.

37. Scales of Design Play faster.

38. Scales of Design Concept Business Goals User Tasks / Motivations Site Flow & Wayfinding Supporting Systems Navigation Widgets Global Styles Language Buttons Graphics Fonts Large Scale Small Scale

39. Problems vs. Solutions Problems vs. Solutions

40. Problems vs. Solutions “ Design is finding the problem, not the solution.”

41. Problems vs. Solutions Documents as communication space Not as blueprints

42. Problems vs. Solutions

43. Problems vs. Solutions

44. Problems vs. Solutions Expose and flesh out the problems While manage constraints

45. Problems vs. Solutions Suggest solutions Share the outcome to create buy-in

46. Open Design Open Design

47. Open Design Agile demands open: it’s got to be flexible and extensible.

48. Open Design Expose to create depth .

49. Scales of Open Design Concept Business Goals User Tasks / Motivations Site Flow & Wayfinding Supporting Systems Navigation Widgets Global Styles Language Buttons Graphics Fonts Large Scale Small Scale

50. Open Design

51. Open Design

52. Open Design

53. Open Design Small Scale as reflection of Large Scale Design emerges from simple rules

57. Say Hi. Alex Chaffee [email_address] Leslie Chicoine [email_address]