UX+Agile

A talk on reconciling the tension between UX Design and Agile, for UX Pittsburgh, 6 May 2014

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1. UX  +  Agile   UX  Pi+sburgh   6  May  2014   Jim  Laing  
2. INTRODUCTIONS  
3. AGILE:  A  QUICK  DEFINITION  
5. Source:  h+p://agilemanifesto.org  
6. UX  +  AGILE:  MY  EXPERIENCES  
8. h+p://www.agileproductdesign.com   Enter  Jeff  Pa+on  
9. UX  VS.  AGILE:  WHY  THE  TENSION?  
10. 1.  Historical:  Distributed  Design   2.  Ideological:  ReacLve,  not  predicLve   3.  PragmaLc:  Falling  Short  of  AmbiLons   UX  Vs.  AGILE:  Why  the  tension?  
11. 1.  Distributed  Design  
12. Compelled   Use     Opt-­‐in   Reduce  Cost   Commercial  Sale   adopLon   purpose   Origin  of   Agile     Domain   of  UX     Source:  Jeff  Pa+on,  Is  User  Experience  Relevant  Where  you  Work?     h+p://www.agileproductdesign.com/wp1/is-­‐user-­‐experience-­‐relevant-­‐where-­‐you-­‐work/  
13. 2.  ReacLve  not  PredicLve   UX   Agile  
14. BDUF  
15. 3.  Falling  Short  of  AmbiLons  
16. Source:  h+p://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org  
17. UX  VS.  AGILE              UX          AGILE  
18. 1.  Embrace  distributed  design  
21. 2.  Prepare  to  be  reacLve  
23. 3.  Empower  and  Don’t  Enable    
24. •  Distributed  Design                Embrace  it   •  ReacLve  not  PredicLve              Prepare  to  React   •  Falling  Short              Empower  and  Don’t  Enable   UX  vs.  agile              UX          AGILE  
25. Thanks!   Links  for  the  interested:   •  Alan  Cooper’s  Slides  at  Agile  2008  (with  speaker  notes):   h+p://www.cooper.com/journal/agile2008/   •  Jeff  Pa+on’s  Site:  h+p://www.agileproductdesign.com   •  Dual-­‐Track  Scrum:   h+p://aaron.sanders.name/agile-­‐explained/dual-­‐track-­‐scrum-­‐brief   •  Silicon  Valley  Product  Group  (also  a  great  blog)  on  Dual-­‐Track   Scrum:  h+p://svpg.com/dual-­‐track-­‐scrum/