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Page 1: Are Agile Projects Doomed to Half-Baked Design? Alex Chaffee alex@PivotalLabs.com Leslie Chicoine leslie@GetSatisfaction.com

Are Agile Projects Doomed to Half-Baked Design?

Alex [email protected]

Leslie [email protected]

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Introduction

What is DesignWhat is Coding

XP and Agile Programming

Agile Design: How to merge Agile processes and design principles

Q&A

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Web 2.0 = ?

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Web 2.0 = play

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Web 2.0 = play faster

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Design Methods

Design

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Strategy

Graphics

User Centered

Front End Coding

User Interface

Information Architecture

InteractiveInteraction

Research

User Flow

Concepts

Design Methods

Design

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I design.

Design Methods

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Research

Thought

Modeling

Communication

Play

Re-design

Design Methods

I design.

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Coding

Coding Methods

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Model-View-Controller

Databases

JavaScript

Java

Debugging

CSS

Version Control

IDEs Research

CodingRuby

Design Patterns

UML Diagrams

Deploying

Perl

Object-Oriented Design

Best Practices

Scripting

Coding Methods

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I code.

Coding Methods

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I code.Research

Thought

Modeling

Communication

Play

Re-design

Coding Methods

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“Design is finding the problem, not the solution.”

—Leslie Chicoine

The Big Idea

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The hard problems are…

• people problems– (mis-) communication– (not enough) feedback– (not fully) comprehending constraints

• process problems– deadline and resource management– design flexibility in the face of frequent change

Where can we find a people-oriented process, and process-oriented people?

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Extreme Programming is an Agile Process

– Motto: Embrace Change– Other Agile Processes include Scrum, Crystal Clear,

Adaptive Software Development, Feature Driven Development, DSDM, Agile Modeling

XP Defined

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Extreme Programming is an Agile Process• Values

FeedbackCommunicationSimplicityCourage

XP Defined

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XP Practices

Collective Ownership

Pairing

Continuous Improvement

Continuous Integration

testing

refactoring

simple design

High code quality

Sustainable PaceOn-site Customer

design by discussion

frequent spontaneous

working sessions

Suggest and agree to process changes

”Ask the room”

“Don’t be stupid.”

retrospectives

Incremental design,

development, deployment

Weekly demos

XP Practices

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XP Cycles– Rapid Iteration, small releases

– Frequent planning/design sessions• Iteration Planning, Release Planning• Break down requirements into stories into tasks• Daily Standup• Regular All-Hands Retrospectives

– Frequent (weekly) demos• of deployed, 100% functional software• real code, real db, real ui, but only some of the stories• coders, clients, designers, PMs are all in the room

XP Cycles

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XP Meets Waterfall Design

Extreme Programming

Waterfall Design

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XP Meets Waterfall Design

Extreme Programming Waterfall Design

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XP Meets Waterfall Design

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• The three things we do in XP that any team should do

Weekly demos Daily standups Pairing

Caution: May provoke resistance and hostility

XP Staples

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Agile Design

Agile Design

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“Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Agile Design

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Embracing change

Communal design ownership

Evolving solutions

Agile Design

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Agile Design

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Agile Design

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“Make it OK for people to challenge an idea or two, the good ideas can withstand it and the weaker ideas fall away and make room for something [better].”

-Brad Bird, Writer/Director of the Incredibles

Agile Design

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“He’ll take good ideas from wherever they come from.”

“He asks you, he wants to know what you think.”

Agile Design

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Scales of Design

Scales of Design

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ConceptBusiness GoalsUser Tasks / MotivationsSite Flow & WayfindingSupporting SystemsNavigationWidgetsGlobal StylesLanguageButtons GraphicsFonts

Large Scale

Small Scale

Scales of Design

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The Large Scale is tested in the Small Scale.

The Small Scale reveals if the Large Scale ideas are solid.

Scales of Design

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Scales of Design

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Scales of Design

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Scales of Design

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Play faster.

Scales of Design

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ConceptBusiness GoalsUser Tasks / MotivationsSite Flow & WayfindingSupporting SystemsNavigationWidgetsGlobal StylesLanguageButtons GraphicsFonts

Large Scale

Small Scale

Scales of Design

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Problems vs. Solutions

Problems vs. Solutions

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“Design is finding the problem, not the solution.”

Problems vs. Solutions

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Documents as communication space

Not as blueprints

Problems vs. Solutions

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Problems vs. Solutions

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Problems vs. Solutions

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Expose and flesh out the problems

While manage constraints

Problems vs. Solutions

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Suggest solutions

Share the outcome to create buy-in

Problems vs. Solutions

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Open Design

Open Design

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Agile demands open: it’s got to be flexible and extensible.

Open Design

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Open Design

Expose to create depth.

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ConceptBusiness GoalsUser Tasks / MotivationsSite Flow & WayfindingSupporting SystemsNavigationWidgetsGlobal StylesLanguageButtons GraphicsFonts

Large Scale

Small Scale

Scales of Open Design

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Open Design

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Open Design

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Open Design

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Open Design

Small Scale as reflection of Large Scale

Design emerges from simple rules

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Designers should…

• Design a week in advance of coding• Not make your mockups pixel-perfect• Work literally side-by-side with coders when

implementing mockups• Allow coders to participate in IA/UI design —

Especially after the coding has already started

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Coders should…• Coders should ask designers… or else

– time is wasted re-working solved issues– solutions are implemented that don't work with other parts of

the designed system– coders make assumptions based on mockups

• Coders should give frequent live demos… or else– designers don't know what parts of the design are/aren't

working– designers don't know what parts of the design aren't working

together– coders don't know their code has bugs or needs tweaking

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How to integrate with an outside design company?

• Communication and feedback are naturally more stretched out

• Some unnatural (or at least un-Agile) barriers are imposed

– Time and space

– Signoff procedures

– Documentation / specs

– Perfectionism

– Mistrust

• Bring them in to your process as much as you can

• Don’t force them to adapt too much or they’ll resent and demonize you

• Iterate per-month at first, then per-week

• Invite them to your demos (remotely if need be)

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Alex [email protected]

Leslie [email protected]

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