Presenter: Gary Barber

Incorporating UX into Agile

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Agile & UX are They Really Different?

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Why the Conflict?

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Consider the Agile World

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Consider the UX World

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Are they the Same?

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After All It's Just UCD

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Mitigating Risk

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52 shades of Agile

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How do we do this?

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Kick Off

Starting from Nothing!

We Need Some Due Diligence

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Use Lean Validation Canvas

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Research (and testing)

It's Science!

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Starting with the Research Pool

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or Just in Time Research

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Research Only takes 1 Day

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Shorten the Sprint Feedback Loop

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Analysis Paralysis

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So Keep the Research & Testing Short

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Research & Test, Collaborate with the Whole Team

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Good Research - Is an Investment

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For Example - Personas

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Research is Testing & More!

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Design, Dev and Prototyping

Everyone Designs for a Day!

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Design Outputs are Just Discussion Points

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Some Designs will die - use the Design Graveyard

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Let People Think and Get Ideas

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Now the Magic Happens

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Design Simplification

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Sprint Tip - UX Debit

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Sprint Tip - The 3:1 Rule

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Sprint Tip - Jettison the Wireframes

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Sprint Tip - Use Emotive User Stories

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What About the BA

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Testing (and Validation)

Test Small, Fast, without Bias

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Testing Only takes 1 Day

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Design and Dev Critiques

Evidence based Decisions

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Do Critiques

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One Team or Nothing

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In Summary

1) Inception Research

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2) Feeding from the Research Pool

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3) Doing it all JiT

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Note: UX people work small and iterate fast

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Note: Nothing is fixed

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Note: Keep it Lean!

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Note: Be Visual

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Something Else to Think on

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The World is Not All Code

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Bring the Best of the Two Worlds Together

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