Some tips and tricks from our day to day for how to get UX work in the agile methodology

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Yael Keren | June 2017

2. Who am I?
Yael Keren
Head of UX at Clicktale
Mentor at GoogleTLV Campus

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Clicktale

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AGILEvs UX

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AGILE+ UX

7. What is Agile?

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9. Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4
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Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3
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Sprints
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Sprint 0
3-9 weeks
UX / UI

10. Why is Agile challenging for UX

11. Sprints
Challenge #1

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Sprints
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Sprint 1 Sprint 3 Sprint 4Sprint 2
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Sprint 0
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week week
Sprints
Sprint Sprint 3Sprint 2
Validate Sprint 1
Design Sprint 3
Support + QA Sprint 2

14. Sprints
Challenge #1
What we do…

15. Test while planning

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Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3
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SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) methodology
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Sprint 4 Sprint 5
week week week

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Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3
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SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) methodology
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Planning
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Product Increment 1
Sprint 1 Spr
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Product Increment 2
Design
Product Increment 2
Validate + QA
Product increment 0

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20. UX is part of QA

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Plan Actual

22. Fixing issues
Challenge #2

23. Didi - Developer:
“If the code works – no need to fix it”
Gili - Product Manager:
“Let’s add another feature instead!”

24. What we do…
Fixing issues
Challenge #2

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Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3
week week
2 days design bugs
week week week week
Sprint 0
3-9 weeks

26. Iteration mindset

27. Negotiation
Give me $100
and I will do it
in a day…

28. Sync
Challenge #3

29. How will the developer understand
exactly what you meant?
How do you know he understood?

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Actual - Date pickerPlan - Date range picker

31. What we do…
Sync
Challenge #3

32. Feature Kickoff

33. Attend daily stand-up

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Confid
I freeze here
DEV DEV DEV QA
DEV
Sit amongst the developers
PM

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Confid
Hang designs on the wall

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37. Summary

38. #1 - Sprints
• Test while planning
• Product Increments –
7 weeks
• UX is part of QA
TAKEAWAYS
#3 - Sync
• Feature kick-off
• Attend daily stand-up
• Sit with developers
• Hang designs on the
wall
• Go intoTFS
#2 - Fixing issues
• 2 days UI/UX fixes in a
sprint
• Iteration mindset
• Negotiation

39. Agile is all about
communication
The most important thing…

40. Thank you
Yael Keren
Yael.keren@gmail.com