How to successfully care about user experience in scrum? What are the key benefits and problems of incorporating UX into agile methodologies? What role should the UX specialist play while being in a scrum team? Attendees of the World Usability Day in Sopot (Poland) in 2013 already know that. Find out yourself!

1. UX in scrum
Hubert Wawrzyniak

2. Agenda
1. Scrum benefits
2. Problems in scrum
3. Role of UX specialist in scrum

3. Scrum – scheme of work
Daily scrum
Zadanie
Item
Item
Product
backlog
SPRINT
Item
Task 1
Task 2
Item
Task 3
Sprint backlog
Increment

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Scrum benefits

5. Less documentation

6. Effective communication

7. Escaping wrong choices easily

8. Looking over the product throughought the whole process

9. Co-creation of the product. For real.

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Problems in scrum

11. Risk of losing the big picture

12. Very little time to do traditional UX tasks

13. Perfecting design

14. Scrum fanatics

15. Designing and developing in the same sprint
grooming
planning
designing
development
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1 man-day
13
2,5 man-days
task estimation
planning resources
task estimation
sprint review
increment

16. Solution – work in n-1,n, n+1 system
sprint goal
A
B
C
UX tasks
B
B
B
analysis and design
helping developers
testing and analysis
Sprint 9
Sprint 10
Sprint 11

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Role of UX specialist in
scrum

18. Users’ voice

19. Reasearcher

20. Originator

21. Architect

22. Polititian

23. Team member

24. Analyst

25. Evangelist

26. Role of UX specialist in scrum
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Users’ voice
Researcher
Originator
Archotect
Polititian
Team member
Analyst
Evangelist
Product
discovery
Product
delivery

27. Communication matters

28. Agile UX techniques
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Stakeholder mapping
Emathy maps
Story mapping
Rose, buds&thorns
Business value matrix
Paper prototyping
Just-in-time design
Round-robin
Cognitive walkthrough
Guerilla testing

29. ?

30. Thank you!
hubert.wawrzyniak@allegro.pl