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Using UX Skills to Influence a Scrum Team. An Agile UX Case Study Tonya McCarley • July 28, 2016 @tmccarley #Agile2016 #SlicingFTW
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Using UX Skills to Influence a Scrum Team.An Agile UX Case Study
Tonya McCarley • July 28, 2016
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Agenda§ Brief UX overview
§ Scope of the PROJECT
§ Impact of Professional Development
§ IDEA of Slicing
§ Implementation & Measurement
§ What was Learned
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Continual Learning§ Observation of our users
§ Looking for patterns to make the system and/or task easier for users to be more successful
§ Proposing new solutions
§ Iterating to make improvements
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The Scope
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The UX Assignment
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What is the problem?
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Getting Started§ Break down the Backlog
- Focus on small verticals
§ Prioritize on the System Workflow
- Establish the core baseline
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ContentTree
IngestContent
Publish Content
TrackContent
FindContent
Slice 1§ Introduced the high-level stories from the Backlog
§ Gave the team independence to organize
- Focus on 1 slice = 1 sprint
§ GO!
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Slice 1 RetroComplaints
§ Stepping on each other in the code
§ Not enough new work
§ QA bogged down, “log jam” built up
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Slice 2
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Slice 2 – Retro
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Slice 2 – Retro (continued)
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Keep slicing§ Limit the WIP to green dots
- Tie the green dots to VALUE stories
§ If the developers were out of work:
- PAIR with a fellow developer
- Assist QA with getting stories completed
- Take a break
§ Overall increased level of communication
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Slice 3 – Hiccup…
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Slice 3 – But Look
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Well-oiled machine§ We’re not flooding QA
§ More conversations are happening in the space
§ More paired programming
§ Less mistakes, fewer re-opens
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Keep slicing & Retroing
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Culture changeA culture of wins§ Demos
§ Learnings
§ We rally when we hit a snag
And we celebrate§ Off-site lunches
§ Cupcakes
§ Healthier snacks
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What we learnedSlicing works!
§ Faster to demos & working software
§ Faster to fail & course correct
- Increased collaboration
- Paired programming
§ Better communication
§ Happier stakeholders
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Huge workflow and no one knew how to get through it
Try a new process
Iterated based on learnings from retrospective
Questions?
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