agile ux retreat

Jedis, fight together!Agile + UX = What’s next?

Johanna Kollmann - @johannakoll

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Agile UX Retreat #1

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Planning discussion topics

All photos by Chris Nodder (http://picasaweb.google.com/chris.nodder)

The big themes

• Prototyping

• User research and the feedback loop

• Product backlog planning and prioritisation

• Collaborative workshop techniques

• Roles and processes

• Agile in different environments

• Iteration zero and innovation

• Agile adoption

• Quality and value

• Teams and collaboration

• What comes next?

Fishbowl panel discussions

Team mindset – us vs. them is over!

• Responsibilities and competencies rather

than roles

• Flexibility needs transparency

• Trust requires transparency requires trust

• A shared perspective and clarity of vision

• Don't value process over outcome

• Less ego

• Expertise over interest

• Team credit trumps individual credit

What comes next? - Root-cause analysis

Root-cause analysis

• The vision

• Success

• Culture and mindset

• Ways to work together

• The new ?

Post-agile, post-UX

• Words create worlds

• Changing the meaning of normal

• Our thinking transcended process

avoid process names, like “agile” or “UX”

• Cohesive making

• Playwell teams

• The new normal

• …?

• Work in progress

• Next deadline: Agile 2010

Thanks!