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Lean UX It's not them, it's us - (Revised for UX Cambridge)

spencer
September 14, 2016

Lean UX It's not them, it's us - (Revised for UX Cambridge)

spencer

September 14, 2016
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  1. You are 100% empowered 
 to be both Lean and

    Agile (within the constraints of a quarterly profit reporting cycle, and working with IT’s six month lead time, assuming you have budget in place a year in advance.)
  2. (within the constraints of a quarterly profit reporting cycle, and

    working with IT’s six month lead time, assuming you have budget in place a year in advance.)
  3. Issues Faced • Internal capability/capacity • Up/cross/re-skilling • Departmental silos

    • Departmental KPIs • Unclear repor5ng structure Cross Func3onal Teams
  4. Issues Faced • Small is hard in large orgs. •

    Dedicated – OMen not… • Co-Located – Some5mes Small, Dedicated, Co-located
  5. Issues Faced Only if outcomes are: • Understood • Acceptable

    • (Profitable?) Progress is Outcomes not Outputs
  6. Issues Faced So, what are you going to give us?

    Very hard for business: • to understand! • to execute on. Get out of the Deliverables Business
  7. Issues Faced • Reputa5on worry • Difficulty repor5ng back
 (expecta5on

    of ‘quality’ being valuable) Rapid Prototyping
  8. Issues Faced • Teams may be problem focused • Organisa5on

    silos s5ll have conflic5ng ‣ KPIs ‣ desires ‣ requirements Problem Focused Teams
  9. Issues Faced • We did user research 2 years ago!

    • We can’t show users
 (Our product is secret) • Users are too important / busy • I KNOW what the users want, just build what’s in my head. Con3nuous Discovery / GOOB
  10. Issues Faced You oMen can’t pick your team. ‘Resources’ are

    assigned 
 to you and can be changed
 in and out. An3-paEern: Rockstars, Gurus, and Ninjas
  11. Issues Faced How can you share this across a large

    disparate group? • To where? • To whom? • How? Shared Understanding / Externalise your work
  12. Issues Faced We like making & learning… You are making

    the finished product now though, right? Making over Analysis / Learning over Growth
  13. Issues Faced • Failure sounds bad! • People’s jobs/bonuses rest

    on success! • Org. don’t believe that learning early that something won’t work is valuable Permission to Fail
  14. Issues Faced Extremely long lead 5mes for: • budget •

    planning • approval • marke5ng Defer Decisions
  15. @spencerturner OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES,

    OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES,
  16. @spencerturner “Let’s re3re sense of urgency and instead look for

    sense of purpose.” Kimber Lockhart - CTO at One Medical Group