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Two great tastes that taste great together
Agile & UX
Lane Halley
UX Week 2013

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Agile journey

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Agile momentum
“Future plans to implement agile grew from
59% in 2011 -> 83% in 2012. Nearly half said
their organization has 5+ agile teams (48%),
compared to only 33% in 2011.”
VersionOne State of Agile Dev Survey

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Speed
Visibility
Course correction
Agile expectations

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Agile practices

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sprints
user stories backlog
retrospective
iteration zero
scrum
product owner
pair programming
standups Velocity

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Agile values

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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
The Agile Manifesto (2001)
agilemanifesto.org

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A more humane way of working
flickr/divya_#uxweek @thinknow

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A more humane way of working
(for developers)
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user and business value
collaborative, self-organizing teams
test-driven development
reflection and improvement
The promise of Agile
flickr/mardi grass 2011#uxweek @thinknow

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Pressure to keep writing code
flickr/kenbondy#uxweek @thinknow

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Features are not a product
#uxweek @thinknow flickr/Sahrish~Creating Individuality

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Who determines “done?”
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Build the thing right

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Build the thing right
Build the right thing

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Lean Startup
Lean UX
UX Strategy
Product owner team
Balanced Team
Customer Development
Design thinking

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I’m on an Agile project...
what can I do now?

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Agile mindset

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“Everything you do now, but
less of it and continually.”
- William Pietri

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Quick, visual,
collaborative
& continuous

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Be part of the team
- standup
- iteration planning
- dev/design user stories

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“Every product decision you
make is a design decision.”
- Josh Seiden

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Create conversation
- visual radiators
- wireframe walkthrough
- educate and empower

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Lead with conversation, trail
with documentation.

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Run experiments
- who is this for and when will they use it?
- how will we measure success?
- think, make, check

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Instead of
how do we know if it's done?
ask
how do we know if it's good?

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Reduce waste
- sketch & conversation
- prototype as spec
- kit of parts/style guides

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“There’s no high or low
fidelity, just correct fidelity.”
- Andy Budd

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Find your cadence
- pair with product owner, developers
- design refactor
- continual customer engagement

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Talking to users should not
be a special occasion.

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Expand your toolbox
- code something
- attend a tech meetup / hackathon
- teach what you know

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“The outcome of design is
ideas. The outcome of
writing code is software.”
- Josh Seiden

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Tips for agile/UX happiness
Be part of the team
Create conversation
Run experiments
Reduce waste
Find your cadence
Expand your toolbox

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There is no silver bulletThere is no silver bullet
#uxweek @thinknow flickr/bobjagendorf

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There is no “right” collaboration

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There is no “right” deliverable

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There is no “right” skillset
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“Make products with people,
for people.”
- Johanna Kollmann

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Thank you!
@andersramsay @andybudd @atomicobject
@carbonfive @desireesy @giffco @jboogie
@jeffpatton @jonathanpberger @jseiden
@johannakoll @luxrco
...and all the members of @balancedteam