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Balanced Team Summit
Grand Rapids 2015

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Balanced Team is a community of
technical professionals who value
multi-disciplinary collaboration
and iterative design and delivery
focused on customer value.

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Balanced individuals
Flickr: ChooYut Shing

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Balanced decision-making
Flickr: jonhoward

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Balanced Team is a conversation

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2009 Agile Evolution
Chicago

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What is the
relationship
between UX
and the Agile
team?
photo: @uxgrump@thinknow

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Agile UX Retreat 2010
photo: @uxgrump

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No more
“us and them”
thinking
@johannakoll

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User Experience is not a
role, it’s an outcome

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San Francisco
Grand Rapids
New York
2010 Agile UX Retreats

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Balanced Team Summits
San Francisco 2011
Chicago 2012
San Francisco 2013

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Balanced Salons and Socials
IxDA Boulder 2011 SxSW Austin 2012 LeanUX NYC 2012
London 2013 Los Angeles 2014 SxSW Austin 2014

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Balanced Team is a community

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Practitioner-focused
Learning community
Open information sharing

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Conferences
Social events
Resources
Mailing List
balanced
www.balancedteam.org

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Adrian Howard / Alison Austin / Alan Cooper / Alexa
Roman /Andrew Korf / Andrew Malcolm / Anders Ramsay /
Ariadna Font Llitjos / Becky Gessler / Bill Scott / Brittany
Hunter / Cameron Wood / Chris Nodder / Courtney
Hemphill / Dale Larson / David J Bland / Desirée Sy /J
Calvin Hoot / Janice Fraser / Jared Spool / Jay Trimble /
Jef Bekes / Jeff Gothelf / Jeff Patton / Jeremy Lightsmith
/ Janet Brunckhorst / Janice Fraser / Johanna Kollmann /
Jon Innes / Jon Wettersten / Jonathan Berger / Josh
Seiden / Lane Halley / Martina Schell / Mike Long / Moses
Hohman / Paolo Lorenzoni / Paul Pagel / Robert Fan /
Robert Slifka / Shawn Crowley / Steve McKiernan /
Thomas G. Knight / Tim McCoy / Ward Cunningham /
William Pietri / Zach Larson

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Balanced Team values

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Create trust
Share experiments
Celebrate failure
Welcome diverse voices

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Balanced Team activities

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Lightning Talks
Austin 2014

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Fishbowls
photo: @_aben
Los Angeles 2014

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Open Space
photo: @uxgrumpSan Francisco 2013

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Workshops
photo: @uxgrumpSan Francisco 2011

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Collaboration
photo: @pablohartGrand Rapids 2010

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Social Time
photo: @uxgrumpLondon 2013

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Play
Chicago 2012